Vincente Minnelli Quotes
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'
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You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes.
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By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
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I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.
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Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.
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If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.
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A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.
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I believe that international terrorism is a modern form of warfare against liberal democracies. I believe that the ultimate but seldom stated goal of these terrorists is to destroy the very fabric of democracy. I believe that it is both wrong and foolhardy for any democratic state to consider international terrorism to be 'someone else's' problem.... Liberal democracies must acknowledge that international terrorism is a 'collective problem.'
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The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
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In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
