Alan Lomax Quotes

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

Alan Lomax

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1915 - July 19, 2002

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I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

Jesse Eisenberg

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My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

Jennifer McMahon

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Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Jeremy Bulloch

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I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

Michael Douglas

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I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Stephan Jenkins

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I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

Stephen Baldwin

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In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.

Trudie Styler

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For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

Jason Aldean

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The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.

Dawn Steel

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It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.

Chuck Liddell

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Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

Claire Danes

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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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