Donald O'Connor Quotes
I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
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I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.
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In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.
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All gardening is landscape painting.
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I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
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I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.
