"The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Gene Kelly

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“Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”
“The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.”
“Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.”

Source : "William Julius Wilson: Ending Poverty Is Possible". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2012.
“I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.”
“When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.”
“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.”

Source : 'Artists on Art; from the 14th - 20th centuries', ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, pp. 451, 1927.
“I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.”
“A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.”

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