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"1056 Career Quotes

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Ability Acting Another Character
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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Course Me People Quotes
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

All My Life Been Government Involved
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Along Electrician Got Line
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I miss my singing career very much.

Career Miss Much Singing
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I don’t really know what a hit battle is but I’m willing to go toe to toe with ANY worthy challenger. Lyrically, musically, physically. However they want it

Lyrically Musically Physically Hit battle
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She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Able Become Career Did
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I was a street dancer.

Dancer A Street Career
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The audience has always been my best director.
Always Audience Been Best
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I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.
Feel Full I Can I Feel
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Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Bid City Degree Earned
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I don't see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Going Majority Opinions See
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

Am Avoid Become Becoming
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I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

About Avoid Become Becoming
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I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Even Went So Far
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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

Willie Nelson Had Been
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Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

Remember All Is Singular
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I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Support Gay Marriage Believe
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We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

Got Clear Some Room
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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Musicians Run Can State
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I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

Just Want Texas Be
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

Around Bear Brothers Career
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Business Living Make Mom
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I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

About Change Dwell Life
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I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Bedroom Born Difference Does
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I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

Ambitious Been Old Somebody
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Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Coming Everything Me Roses
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

Anything Cole Porter Four Goes
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Advice Based Could Debates
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You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Anymore Around Because Conference
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

Carpet Film First First Lady
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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Figure Job Kind Lonely
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When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Boxes Burned Evenings Fireplace
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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Brought Down Impeached Myself
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Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

Always Barbados Choreographer Culture
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People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Because Expect Just Just Because
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I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.
After Experience First I Love
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I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Proud Everything Achieved Idol
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When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit.

When Went LosAngeles Right
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

College Done Field Fire
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Awards Care Cool Doing
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

About Deserve Entertaining Heroism
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In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

Cannot City Cosmic Depart
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I'm - you know, I'm not a good actor.

Actor Good Know You
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When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

When Heard The Pixies
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Mother Encouraged Me To
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Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Ever Since Beginning Rock
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