Heather Dubrow Quotes

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

Heather Dubrow

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• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Performer
  • Five-Year-Old

• I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Lawyer
  • Performer
  • Trapeze

• When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Different
  • Audience
  • Fame

• I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • Stage
  • Performer
  • Diva

• I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

  

  Merle Dandridge
  • Different
  • College
  • Person

• But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Performer
  • Secrecy
  • Assistants

• There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Health
  • Performer
  • Commercialism

• What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Principles

• It's not that I want to break down the public schools, ... I want to improve them for every child, but my children needed to be educated right now.

  

  Margaret Young
  • Children
  • Improve
  • Public School

• I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

  

  R. G. LeTourneau
  • God
  • Money

• What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

  

  Helen Keller
  • Joy
  • Relation
  • Tire

• I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn’t matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn’t do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That’s the way he was.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Matter
  • Bird
  • Boys

• I was christened the "British Bulldog" by friends and colleagues who said I not only looked like a bulldog but fought like one. I was more of a fighter than a boxer. The "Blackpool Rock" originated from the fact that previous to becoming a fighter I was employed in the Blackpool Rock Factory, rock being a form of what Americans call candy.

  

  Brian London
  • Colleagues
  • British Bulldog
  • Blackpool Rock Factory

• Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

  

  James Hansen
  • Civilization
  • Planet
  • Peril

• Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue.

  

  George M. Cohan
  • Red
  • Heartbeats

• Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Experience
  • War

• I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

  

  Heather Dubrow
  • Performer