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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I'm a total people pleaser.
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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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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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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'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.
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You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
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I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing in that way you're supposed to. I like to be above it.
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I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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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.
