Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
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I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.
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Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
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As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth, ... We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.
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Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?
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On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."
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Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
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The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.
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Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
