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Stanley Donen Quotes

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.'

Stanley Donen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1924

Topics

Business Me Flying Down More Old

I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.

Jessica Williams

Love Lion Child Me Compromise You

I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.

Andrew Zimmern

Love Eating Tokyo China I Love San

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

John Cornyn

Think Will Need Represent Senators

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

Amy Tan

Mother Myself Me Person Forgive

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school.

Shukla Bose

School People Building Story Poverty

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Tom Jones

Singing You My Own Choir Always Own

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Ron Blomberg

Sports Me Will Competing Give Else

As a small child, I could watch anything happen and tell a story, and it was funny.

Ron White

Funny Child Small Story Anything

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

Roy Rogers

Week Mean Us Every Put Station

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

Michael Musto

End Week Alive Want Write Whatever

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

Chris Abani

Work Writing Living Will Him Writer

Every day, I'm learning new things about myself. Every day, I'm learning new things about life.

Aquaria

Life Learning Myself Day New Things