Elaine Stritch Quotes
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
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I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.
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I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.
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I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.
