Eleanora Fagan (Billie Holiday) Quotes
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I would love to do some theater.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
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Sometimes I'm on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood, but other times, I'm just totally absorbed by what I'm creating on the easel.
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It takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.
