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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I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
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"I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me."
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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I lived at home off and on until I was 37. I have about a million college credits. I'd worry about writing about anyone else because I'd be invading their privacy, but you can use your mom and dad and their dog for everything!
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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.
