Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.
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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
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I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
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Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. It's how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
