Gabrielle Roy Quotes
Florentine... Florentine Lacasse... half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery,the young man murmured.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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Roma come before everything else.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
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What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?
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As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.
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Florentine... Florentine Lacasse... half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery,the young man murmured.
