Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes
A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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Midi is my hobby.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
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The world I was born into was one filled with music.
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I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.
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I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.
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West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
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A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.
