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Cab Calloway

"We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free."

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"We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free."

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Donna Grant

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."

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"A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally."

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Donna Grant

"If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant."

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"Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer."

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"Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear."

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"This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell."

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Donna Grant

"My brain is open."

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Donna Grant

"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."

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"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."

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"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."

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"A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage."
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"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience."
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"What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't."
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"The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job."
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"90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness."
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"Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice."
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"You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job."
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"It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good."
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