Corrine Brown Quotes
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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There is no one true church.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'
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There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.
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I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
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I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
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I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
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I will let the work I've done speak for me.
