Donna McKechnie Quotes
Frank Loesser was a beautiful soul. I didn't know how great he was when I met him, but I just adored him. He was a sweet man.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
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No, I've never played baseball in my life.
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I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
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I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
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Joni's genius is that she creates chords that are ambiguous, chords that have two or more different roots. ...Joni's music is as close to impressionist visual art as anything I've heard. ...harmonic complexity born out of her strict insistence that the music not be anchored in a single harmonic interpretation.
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Frank Loesser was a beautiful soul. I didn't know how great he was when I met him, but I just adored him. He was a sweet man.
