Anita Pointer (Anita Marie Pointer) Quotes
All my adult life all I knew was performing. I pushed myself. My motto was I can always do one more show.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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We've been on Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood and the Today Show ... But we've had to cut down some of it to concentrate on our game and not be distracted.
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I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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All my adult life all I knew was performing. I pushed myself. My motto was I can always do one more show.
