Donna McKechnie Quotes
It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
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We are being held hostage by the people we elect.
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My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
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One of the hardest things to do for business people and leaders is to keep the team focused on achieving the goal.
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It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
