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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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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I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
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If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.
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I do guest vocals all the time.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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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.
