Eleanor Powell Quotes
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The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
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Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'
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America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.
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In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.
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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
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I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
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I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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I realized being together was a bigger thing than any of us alone. So that clinched it for me. That made me want to explore it further.
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Its been a crazy ride. A couple of tournaments ago I wasn't even supposed to be here. But I got a Major and everything is coming full circle now. It's a nerve wracking situation. I just got the luckiest break of all time on that last shot.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
