Gene Lees Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love—they have to earn it.
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The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
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Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
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Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
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I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
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Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.
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Popularity matters a lot, as at the end of the day, the love of your audiences can make you win.
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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
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You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.
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The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
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Criticism doesn't worry me.
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
