Genevieve Behrend Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
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You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
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My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.
