Linda Ronstadt Quotes
When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
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Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
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Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?
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I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married. I don't do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay.
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
