Polly Bergen Quotes
It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
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The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.
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I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek them-that is nothing but a phrase-they come to you.
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To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
