Brenda Lee Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Everybody wants to have the president talk about their issue.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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I’ve always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane. … The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.
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When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.
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Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.
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A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
