D. B. Sweeney Quotes
There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
