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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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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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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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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I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.
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'Cause maybe you're loveable.Maybe you're my snowflake.And your eyes turn from green to gray.And in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place.And you should never cut your hair,'Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder.And you will never knowJust how beautiful you are to me.But maybe I'm just in loveWhen you wake me up.
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I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.
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Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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And you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover
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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.
