Anita O'Day Quotes
When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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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 consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.
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There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.
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Rufus because my diaphragm gets a workout while trying to utilize the 18 vocal sounds a mole makes. Chuckie because ... he's an asthmatic with five personalities rolled into one-plus I have to do the voice the way Christine Cavanaugh did it for 10 years.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.
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When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.
