Hank Ballard Quotes
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
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I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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Antoine 'Fats' Domino was a 1950s rock n' roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
