Patricia McBride Quotes
Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
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I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.
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Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
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I'd rather have too many weird fans than no fans at all.
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Plans are great, but missions are better.
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Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
