Willie Parker Quotes
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
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In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
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Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.
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We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.
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My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'
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The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.
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I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
