Lindy Boggs Quotes
So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I do my best, and that's all I can do.
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I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me.
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
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So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
