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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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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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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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
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I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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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.
