Cholly Atkins (Charles "Cholly" Atkins) Quotes
In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I don't feel famous.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
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In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.
