Wayne Shorter Quotes
It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I think music is another language.
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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
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I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
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I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'
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It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.
