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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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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People deserve to see progress.
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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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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
