Debbie Allen Quotes
It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks.
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Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessity of painting.. .His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. These path leads only into painting.
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Εἴπερ κακὸν φέροι τις, αἰσχύνης ἄτερἔστω· μόνον γὰρ κέρδος ἐν τεθνηκόσι·κακῶν δὲ κᾀσχρῶν οὔτιν᾽ εὐκλείαν ἐρεῖς.
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He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
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I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
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The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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Under Armour is not about the Left or the Right. It's about moving forward together.
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It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.
