Helen Reddy Quotes

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Helen Reddy

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It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

Joe Jamail

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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

John Berger

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'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

John Darnielle

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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

John Muir

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We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

John Walters

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Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.

Stephen Chbosky

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If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

Simon Rattle

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Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.

Tony Bradman

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I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.

Mickalene Thomas

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I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Miranda Hart

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Louisa May Alcott

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'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

Jason Aaron

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