Fred Astaire Quotes
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
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Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.
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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
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'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
