Linda Blair Quotes
We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
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I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.
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When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
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We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
