Vincente Minnelli Quotes
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.
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Usher did the ultimate no-no to me. I will never be with him again, and that is that.
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I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.
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'Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people's interest.
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I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
