Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't finish it until eight years later.

Gordon Lightfoot

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I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

Joey Skaggs

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You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Jenifer Lewis

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

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You can't take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Meryl Streep

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I travel as light as possible and usually pack in less than a minute. If I'm going somewhere hot, I throw in some flip-flops, T-shirts and shorts - but I still pack clothes that I never use.

Tom Parker Bowles

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I have learnt to be even more patient.

Roger Federer

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When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'

Rob Lowe

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He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

Roscoe Conkling

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Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

Rupert Sanders

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In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

Mike Birbiglia

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But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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