Melissa Auf der Maur Quotes

I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
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  • Woman
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• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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  • Very
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• Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Thought
  • Deserve
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• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
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  • Country
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• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
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• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
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  • Brazil

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
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• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
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• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Speak
  • Try
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• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

  

  Manish Dayal
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• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

  

  Misty Copeland
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• In 'Citadel,' I play a very young father. When I first signed onto 'Hunky Dory,' I was actually 18 years old.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Father

• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Excellence

• A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

  

  Marco Brambilla
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• I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

  

  Melissa Auf der Maur
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