Lonnie Donegan Quotes
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?Lonnie Donegan
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The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
Jack Scalia
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
Naomie Harris -
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince -
See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
Rachael Harris -
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
Everybody has a story... and a scream.
Rachel Roberts -
It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
Mahershala Ali -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
Eddie McClintock -
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
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Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.
Kim Dickens -
I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.
Jerry Lewis -
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
Wang Leehom -
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
Jack Black -
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens -
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?
Lonnie Donegan