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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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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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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The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
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Leadership is service to others.
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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.
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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.
