Laurieann Gibson Quotes

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

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• I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Turning

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Man
  • Desire

• Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Free
  • Comfortable

• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Music
  • They Say

• For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The thing I like to do most is shop.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Like
  • Most
  • Shop

• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Small
  • Idea
  • Start

• When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Try

• Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Long
  • Power
  • Day

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Nails

• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Weird

• Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Working on a particular look doesn't make you a serious actor.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Serious

• I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Movie
  • Theatre

• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Years

• Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.

  

  Georges Canguilhem
  • Philosophy
  • Values
  • Relation

• For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

  

  Laurieann Gibson