Maddie Ziegler Quotes
I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
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Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
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I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and I've always liked Kate Winslet and her work and respected her.
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We are genuinely in a world that criticises women even when they are going through the biggest physical challenge of their life: pregnancy.
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In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.
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Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
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I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
