August Bournonville Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
-
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.
-
Race differences show up early in life.
-
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.
-
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
-
In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
-
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
-
I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
-
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.
-
Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
-
You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
-
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
-
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
-
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
-
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.
-
I'm a writer first and a singer second.
-
It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.
-
I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.
-
I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.
-
One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.
-
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
-
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
