Been Quotes
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The first time I came here to the U.S. to start a career, it was in 2002 or 2003. Since then, it's been so, so hard.
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I could have been Captain Beefheart or Tom Waits, if I'd been born in America.
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General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
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I always think of young Hollywood as its own little high school. There are the girls who have been working for a while that are kind of like the Queen Bees and the new kids at 'school' just starting out.
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I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.
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I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.
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I met a guy, and we were seeing each other for about a month or so, but as it got more intense, I started to freak out a little bit. I hadn't been in a relationship for quite a while, and I just said I was going away and not sure if it was going to work.
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To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
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I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens have been incarcerated in Rikers Island.
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My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.
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I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.
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If you're always waiting for a producer to hire you... your chances are really, really small. I've been knocking on doors and asking for a job for many years, and my career really changed when I decided to create my own material.
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I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.
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Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.
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I've been described as impatient.
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I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life.
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I've been in this sport only four years, and I know that I'll keep learning and improving.
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I had been teaching myself photography.
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I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.
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Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.
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Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.
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Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of nationhood? In each other? Even that has been complicated. It feels like there's a total collapse of trust, but without trust, it's impossible to have any sense of who one is.
