Agnes de Mille Quotes
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I want the single player experience.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Women just love to shop.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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Failure is always an option.
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It was a good start. I thought we got better as the game progressed ... .
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There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that's always a bad sign. They remade 'Frankenstein' 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it's not a new phenomenon.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
