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- Nov 07, 2020
Who Quotes
Quotes on who matters and why.
These quotes highlight who shaped someone or who stands out in a field - teenage musical influences, or the rarity of actors who combine action skills with classical theater training. Related reading includes He Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get confused; doing choreography in the ring can be done by anyone. I take the guy who works in the gas station on the corner, and I teach him a choreography for a week, and I swear he can do it in a ring.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love drag so much and it's a huge part of who I am but there's also another side that hasn't really gotten out into the music and I'm excited to show that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
RuPaul is someone who I really look up to because he's very much a renaissance man.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020