Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
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The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
