Paul Simon Quotes
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
