Debbie Allen Quotes
But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.
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A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
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But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.
