Ann Miller Quotes
Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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If I get noticed for my individual performance, that's what happens. Other than that, I'm just trying to win the game.
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There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
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So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
