Bruno Tonioli Quotes
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.
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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
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It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
