Lesley Gore Quotes
If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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My health is fine.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Taller people get very competitive. When I meet someone who's close to me or taller, I'm straight up; I don't wanna be smaller than them.
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I'm a fighter, not a quitter.
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I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.
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America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
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If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?
