Perry Como Quotes
For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.
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My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
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For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
