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“Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.”
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“If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.”
Source : Ethel Smyth (1987). “The memoirs of Ethel Smyth”, Viking Pr
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“Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.”
Source : Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside
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“Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.”
Source : "Miles of Aisles" by L. M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 1995.
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“My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'”
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“I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.”
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“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”
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“The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.”
Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.