LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
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Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
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He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.
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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
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I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.
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I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
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I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.
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New York has everything, so you can do anything.
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Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
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Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
