Elaine Stritch Quotes
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
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In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.
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Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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In 1979 in Wolverhampton at a club I forgot the name of, my trousers split, luckily up the back. I duct-taped them together just before we went on. I didn't have any spare ones. I've had a few stupid incidents where things have been thrown on stage, but nothing that would put me off going on stage.
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I think that if a player wants to be at the very top, he needs to win the Champions League and league titles. That's what makes the great players truly great.
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I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
