Gene Lees Quotes
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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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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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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 don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.
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What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.
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I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
