Marya Mannes Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.
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Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
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It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.
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It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
