Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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Obviously, Kanye and I are very different in the way we express ourselves publicly. He's so passionate... about art, about culture, about creativity. And he's really good at it. And that honesty manifests itself in ways that are not politically correct, not socially acceptable sometimes.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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I think that was the scariest part about bobsled, is when you just don't know what's happening, you don't know where you are on the track, you don't know when it's going to be over, and you don't know what it's supposed to feel like.
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I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
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When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
