Walt Alston Quotes
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
Kate McKinnon -
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
Katharine Cornell -
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta -
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
Gary Ross -
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron d'Holbach
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
Kate Winslet -
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge -
It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
Oriana Fallaci -
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
Dan Fogelberg
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
J. Paul Getty -
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
Patrick Chappatte -
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
Gail Porter -
If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
A. Philip Randolph -
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
Radha Mitchell -
I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
E. L. Doctorow
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I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.
Jennifer Johnston -
One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
Mark Roberts -
There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.
Mary Timony -
I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
Angela Duckworth -
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
Dan Shechtman -
More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston