Don McLean Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
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I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.
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The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.
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I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
