Jodi Benson Quotes
When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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My health is fine.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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We are held up by the radical Muslims as the enemy. So every time we go into one of these countries to do - we think - the right thing, we become propaganda for this radical movement.
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My long hair and the sideburns made me stand out, really, because my hairstyle was completely different to the other footballers of that era.
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Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.
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I like collecting fedoras. Whenever I go abroad for shows, I always look to buy one.
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When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.
