Kenny Ortega Quotes
I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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With Real Sociedad, I felt that I needed to leave.
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I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.
