My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.
Amy Adams
Recitation: by Male by Female
In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.
Jimmy Gomez
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I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.
Joe Torre
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People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?
Melanie Griffith
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I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
Robert Smith
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My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.
Roger Bannister
AcceptanceSchoolMoreDaysStudents
What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.
Rita Moreno
WorkThinkBodyYoungYour Body
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
Roald Dahl
AnimalChildProcessBornManners
At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.
Julia Ormond
PeopleControlYouWantFirstJust
Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.
Joy Harjo
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I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.
Jordan Peterson
I AmLanguageGoingAmDetest
Family is the most important thing in life, period.
Dennis Quaid
LifeFamilyImportantMostThing
I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.
David Stern
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