Alicia Markova Quotes
A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
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I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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The point of having nuclear weapons is to deter a war of any kind. They have succeeded in doing so for the past 37 years. To be an effective deterrent a potential aggressor must believe that under certain circumstances such weapons will be used.
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A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
