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"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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"Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea."
"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different."
"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
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