Vincente Minnelli Quotes
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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We mustn't be afraid of the truth.
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I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.
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Education is the best economic policy there is.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
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If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
