LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.
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In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
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Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.
