Donald Freed Quotes
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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Europe was the major surprise for the month.
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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
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I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
