Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
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As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
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I'm a very musical person.
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I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
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The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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Underwear. It's like a god damned leash. It also constantly reminds me of how funny I look naked.
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I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.
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The goal of dream study is to increase one's contact with and access to the abilities of their subconscious mind. I became interested in dreams as an avenue to increase my knowledge of the subconscious mind, and increase my psychological and emotional effectiveness. I have been recording my dreams since I was seventeen.
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I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
