Alicia Alonso Quotes
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.
