Martha Graham Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
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I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
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My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.
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Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means…
