Ani DiFranco Quotes
And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
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I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
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Even working from nature you have to compose.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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Never, never try to scope the market.
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I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?
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There's a period in one's life when beauty is very important. For me, it was high school. But I had a grandmother who kept saying, 'Handsome is as handsome does.' That's always stuck with me.
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It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
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Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song.
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You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.
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Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.
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I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
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And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.
