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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I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.
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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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There are no prizes for average performance.
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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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My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.
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It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.
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Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
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Oh, people will think what they think!...Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
