Mick Jagger Quotes
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
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I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.
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I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
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I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.'
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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
