Lewis Grizzard Quotes
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Death is better than slavery.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empathy which he must develop simultaneously with his imaginative capacity.
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Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible
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I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.
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I'm not a big fan of cold weather; that's why I moved to Vegas! Dave Keuning Weather Vegas Big Big Fan Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal. Dave Keuning You I Can Vegas Tell That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that. Dave Keuning Singing Perfect Like Knowing I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me. Dave Keuning Love Music Me You Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous. Dave Keuning Dangerous Band Themselves Gonna I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
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There's no such thing as being too Southern.
