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Right Quotes


"Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, Whoa, I'm so cool."


"And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good."


"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that."


"I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!"


"I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet."


"The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around."


"As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part."


"It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right."


"So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount."


"If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated."


"I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia."


"If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing."


"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."


"Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door."


"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."


"To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it."


"It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right."


"I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me."


"We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted."


"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."


"Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap."


"You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground."


"Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform."


"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."


"There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right."


"Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!"


"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."


"I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating."


"I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington."


"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."


"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."


"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."


"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."


"If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always."


"I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it."


"We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do."


"The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right."
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