Jim Messina Quotes
What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought: 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tourJim Messina Buffalo Springfield
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Yo-Yo Ma -
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid -
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse -
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
Edgar Wright
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook -
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
Aaron Koblin -
I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
Harry Belafonte -
The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
Ted Cruz
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
Harold Prince -
As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
Dana Priest -
Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
Beanie Sigel -
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes -
I think being busy is a healthy thing.
Taron Egerton -
Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.
Andy Grove
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Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee -
The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.
Sun Ra -
I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer -
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
Felicity Kendal -
What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought: 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tour
Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield