Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Gatzimos) Quotes
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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My mother has always encouraged my creative side. She is a very eclectic, creative woman and looks incredibly glamorous, even when trudging about in wellies. Our family home is full of items from her travels and her amazing etchings and drawings.
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Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
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What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?
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You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.
