Suzanne Farrell Quotes
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
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Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.
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A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.
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It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.
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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
