Chita Rivera Quotes
We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
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I couldn't deal with a normal life.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
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All I know is that I'm young and your rules they are oldIf I've got to kill to live then there's something left untoldI'm no statesman I'm no general. I'm no kid I'll never beIt's the rules not the soldier that I find the real enemy.
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No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it.
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One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
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Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
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I often stop when I'm doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think 'Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now'. So far, I've been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.
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I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.
