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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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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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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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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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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The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
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I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good.
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When I was working on 'Big Fan,' I didn't really feel like any lines needed to be changed or enhanced or expanded upon in any way. I thought it was a solid script. All you had to do was what it said.
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Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
