Aphra Behn Quotes
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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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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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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I'm very competitive and academic.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
