Dinah Jane Quotes
We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
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I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.
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In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.
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We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
