Agnes de Mille Quotes
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
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I am stable when my private life is a success.
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The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
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At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
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This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
