Lisa Marie Presley Quotes
Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.
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People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.
