Dionne Warwick Quotes
I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
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I hate competition.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
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There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet and staring at Leo and thinking about my first kiss and what I wanted it to be like. And when you have your first real love, it's an epiphany, you know? It's like a whole new world.
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'Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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There's a lot more to being a singer than singing. I don't come off stage thinking that I have a power over people 'cause I don't - it's not a power, it's an ability to be able to communicate with a vast amount of people, something I'm very lucky to be able to do.
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I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.
