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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There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
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I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
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You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
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I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.
