"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."

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Source : Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

Ann Richards

#Inspirational Quotes #Dance Quotes #Women Quotes

“If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.”
“President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.”
“It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.”
“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.”
“I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck”
“I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.”
“Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.”
“Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.”

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