August Bournonville Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
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Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
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The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.
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Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.
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Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
