Gail Ann Dorsey Quotes
When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
Abdus Salam
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
Carice van Houten
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
Ed Oxenbould
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
Nadia Comaneci
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
Karen Robards
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
Wendy Kopp
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
Pardis Sabeti
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
Mara Wilson
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
Lacey Schwimmer
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Rand Paul
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
Walter Jon Williams
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
Adam Smith
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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
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My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
Rowan Williams
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When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.
Gail Ann Dorsey