James Schuyler Quotes
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.
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The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.
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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
