Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
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Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.
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We think this is a good title for our first read because it has such a broad-based appeal. And because it was chosen as the 2001 best book for young adults by the American Library Association.
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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
