Debbie Allen Quotes
The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.
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The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.Any fool can do it;There ain't nothing to it.Nobody knows how we got toThe top of the hill.But since we're on our way down,We might as well enjoy the ride.
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I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'
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The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
