Annie Fellows Quotes
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
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I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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People just want honest music.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
