Dinah Sheridan Quotes
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
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When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
