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Stanley Donen Quotes

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Childhood Happy Small Story Long

If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.

I Am People Me World You Television

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

You Find Know Now Movies Strange

You don't know a player until you coach him.

You Know Him Coach Player Until

I've learned to go with your instincts. To go with your strengths and believe in yourself.

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan.

Border India Now Two Afghanistan

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

Great Job Thought You Phone Three

People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.

Money People Shut Up Up Just Shut

I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.

Chirlane McCray

Work Job Value New York College Me

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God Action Hands Become Through

As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.

Sylvia Robinson

Music Me Crazy Talking You Know

Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest.

Pham Nhat Vuong

Gold Will Out Sit Underneath Just

I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws.

Sebastian Faulks

Good Power Time Government Parents

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