Lionel Blue Quotes
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
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I saw 'Get On Up' about a dozen times. I went every day. Every single day, I was standing outside when the movie theatre opened and bought my ticket. The theatre was usually empty. I live in a town that wasn't eager or very interested in a James Brown biopic, but I couldn't stop watching Boseman.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I think we find that it's most helpful when we have both of our brains applied to an issue.
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
