Chita Rivera Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
-
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
-
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
-
I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
-
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
-
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
-
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
-
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
-
I had a very modest upbringing.
-
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
-
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
-
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
-
In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
-
I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
-
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
-
I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
-
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
-
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.
-
I'm a firm believer in time. I know a lot of people don't believe in time like I do, but I think time heals and kind of reveals all for me.
-
There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
-
I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.
-
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
-
I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
-
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
