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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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
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Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
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Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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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.
