Lynn Swann Quotes
I think this is an opportunity for me to use my talents to help the people of Pennsylvania. I think we can be much better than we have been in recent years. I believe Pennsylvania needs leadership from outside the box.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition.
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I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
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Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.
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Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
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I think this is an opportunity for me to use my talents to help the people of Pennsylvania. I think we can be much better than we have been in recent years. I believe Pennsylvania needs leadership from outside the box.
