Don McLean Quotes
If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.
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His name was Michael R. Ross. I've never known what the "R" was for. He died, however, before I was 7. But he and I seemed to have had quite a nice relationship. He always called me grandlady, and he'd always talk to you as a person rather than as a child. So, I would go with him for his routes in his horse and buggy. So, my memory of him is pretty sharp, plus it has been accentuated by the stories that come out of the family.
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
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If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.
