Wendy Whelan Quotes

I liked the structure of ballet.

Wendy Whelan

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• I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Talk

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Desire
  • Thought
  • Quitting

• 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.'

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Math
  • Girls
  • PR

• 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?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Cure
  • Physician
  • Origin

• I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Working

• I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Characters

• I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Feel
  • Season
  • Stubborn

• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  

  B. B. King
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Be Yourself

• Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Struggle

• I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes.

  

  Ariel Winter
  • Black
  • Shoes
  • Pink

• I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

  

  Anne Enright

• If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then television.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama

• The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.

  

  Angela Lindvall
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Mind
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Bradley A. Smith
  • Law

• Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Important
  • High
  • Team

• I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

  

  Christopher Gadsden
  • People
  • Faith

• The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Philosophical
  • Event

• You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Ballet

• I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
  • Time
  • City
  • Taken

• We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Theatre
  • Planning
  • Ballet

• As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.

  

  Mike Bouchard
  • Good
  • Difference
  • Families

• I liked the structure of ballet.

  

  Wendy Whelan
  • Ballet
  • Structure