Jeanette MacDonald Quotes

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

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• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

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• Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

  

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• I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

  

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• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

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• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

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• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

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• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

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• My favorite animal is steak.

  

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• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

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• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  

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• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  

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• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

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• It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.

  

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• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  

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• Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

  

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• In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

  

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• I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

  

  Jeanette MacDonald
  • Good
  • Training
  • Drinking