Fanny Burney Quotes
While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.
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Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
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While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
