Melissa Manchester Quotes
Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.Melissa Manchester
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
Gary Sinise -
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
Vikram Patel -
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
I get homesick.
Larry Bird -
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian Mckellen -
Music is like my security blanket.
Yoko Ono
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
Edgar Wright -
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
Vincent Cassel -
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall -
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
Nancy Sinatra -
I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
Vanessa Bayer
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
Babasaheb -
Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
Jack Bowman -
The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.
Wassily Kandinsky -
I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.
Orson Scott Card -
'Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.'
Laurell K. Hamilton -
To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
Chevy Chase
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Apple is becoming the JC Penney of tech. I think that there is a sense that the company is in a tailspin, and it doesn't seem to matter what they do right now. … Whatever product that is coming out in September is a clear loser. We haven't seen it yet, but it is a loser.
Jim Cramer -
Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.
Shawn Achor -
It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
Venerable Bede -
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
Alexander Hamilton -
Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.
Melissa Manchester