Lena Horne Quotes
I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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My hunger is always there.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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I'm always challenged by someone.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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You have to know what your users are experiencing.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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It's the familiar love – hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although-to the more imaginative at least-a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.
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I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.
