"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one."

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Dan Rather

#Business Quotes #Egomaniacs Quotes #Performing Quotes

“You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you”
“Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.”
“I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.”
“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot”
“It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?”
“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”
“But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man.”

Source : "Song: Funky Cold Medina (Loc-ed After Dark)". March 21, 1989.

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