Barbara Bush Quotes
Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
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Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.
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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
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I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I’ve always dreamt of - to be talking about myself, and about a play that I’ve written, and to be photographed. It was what I wanted. Now it’s just part of the job.
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Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.
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I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
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My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.
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An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
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There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.
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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
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Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
