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Quotes by American Authors
"I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is."
"My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her."
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."
"My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer."
"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
"There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned."
"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy."
"I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now."
"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
"If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right."
"Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese."
"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."
"Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones."
"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try and feel okay about them."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
"There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful."
"What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me."
"A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them."
"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."
"Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her."
"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."
"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."
"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice."
"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
"Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you."
"The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity."
"Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer."
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated."
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