Nancy Atherton Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
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When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.
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Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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A decent world is built upon small acts of kindness.
