Dorothy Fields Quotes
Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
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I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.
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Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
