Loretta Lynn Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
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The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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We founded RocketJump for two reasons: to provide quality entertainment and to reach as many different audiences as possible.
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You either have to be first, best, or different.
