Keala Settle Quotes
To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.
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Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
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To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life.
