Carole King Quotes
That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I get bored easily.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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How depressing, the Sleeper Service thought. That it should all come down to this; the person with the biggest stick prevails.
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My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.
