Berlie Doherty Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
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‘Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.’
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
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Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
