Wayne McGregor Quotes
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
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To me, most comedy is dark comedy.
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The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.
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My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
