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Ray Charles Quotes

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004

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Myself Society Black Blind Doing

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Matthew McConaughey

Child World Grow Healthy Right Them

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

Work I Am You Feeling Down Earth

The signing of the Israel-PLO accord is more than a political milestone. It is a transformative event which touches every Jewish family - physically, emotionally, spiritually.

Family Political More Jewish Event

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.

Long You Said Movies Manager Matter

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.

Art School Parents Disappointment

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

Home Future Health River Long Task

Whether you're replacing one appliance that's seen better days, or many because you're moving or renovating, you probably know to look for the Energy Star label. That's good advice.

Good Moving Energy Better Advice

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

Experience New York College New

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

Arthur Christiansen

Good Time Reading Story Honey Bad

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

Love Words Speech Living Possible

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

William T. Wiley

Life World Interesting Way Planet

I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

Love Money Together People Story

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