Celia Rivenbark Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.
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I love Justice Marshall. He did an enormous amount for me. But if you confirm me to this position, you will get Justice Kagan. You won't get Justice Marshall, and that's an important thing.
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A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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I was around a lot of gospel as a kid.
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My writing ability all stems from the blues.
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I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.
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Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
