Barbara Mikulski Quotes
What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I'm easily entertained.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
