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.

  

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

  

  Barbara Cook
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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.'

  

  Danica McKellar
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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?

  

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

  

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

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Myself
  • Always
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• I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

  

  Candace Parker
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• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  

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

  

  B. B. King
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• 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
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• I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

  

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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.

  

  Ariel Winter
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• 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.

  

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• 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
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• 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
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• Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.

  

  Katie Kitamura
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• I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

  

  William Joseph Burns
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• I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.

  

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• At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

  

  Twyla Tharp
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• Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But liberation, for them does not encompass destroying their identity, religion, or culture, and many of them want to retain the veil.

  

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  • Women
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• I liked the structure of ballet.

  

  Wendy Whelan
  • Ballet
  • Structure