Xenophanes Quotes
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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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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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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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 like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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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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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
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America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
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Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
