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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My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it certainly made him look at the way he's living and how he's treating his body.
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The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
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In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.
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We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.
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I love to honour people and to write positive songs about them.
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A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
