Crystal Bowersox Quotes
I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.
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I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.
