Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
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Actor's life is very long.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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My family are my friends.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.
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The cats that are doing they thing, you have to search to really find them, to find rappers that can actually rap and speak messages in the music. That's not a good thing at all.
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I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
