Donald O'Connor Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.
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...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.
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I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.
