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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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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I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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To dance is to give channel to the Creator.
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Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
