Aphra Behn Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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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 went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?
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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
