Marcia Wallace Quotes
Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I like shows where, like, there's a team that they're against the world.
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Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
