Alvin Ailey Quotes
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Quotes to Explore
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I want to have a long career.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you don’t do or say anything, it’s not real compassion.
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There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
