Esther Williams Quotes
It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.
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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.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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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.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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You've got to be realistic.
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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.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
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Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.
