Eddie Jemison Quotes
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
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I want to be the best.
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'
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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.
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I loved 'Robotech' as a kid; I think that's pretty widely known.
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That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.
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I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.
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With two kids. It's always too busy.
