T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes
I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.
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I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.
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Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
