Donna Dixon Quotes
I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.
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In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.
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I would not dress Katie Price. Ever. It's important to keep the right look, so it's important to be dressing the right people.
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Don't believe everything you think - or feel.
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When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.
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I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.
