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Robert Caro Quotes

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 30, 1935

Topics

Effort Become Expert Made Ballet

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Band Lovers Modern Been Had

If it came down to it, I wish people heard different records from me that I know give you a soul R&B sound of music that I know is really my gift, gift. But the ones that usually go are the records that radio, the fans and the clubs really love the most.

Love Music Soul People Me Gift

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

Fiction Only Some Subjects Tackled

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Life Cool Think Famous Searching

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Work People World Rest Willing Some

My mother never liked that I worked undercover. She always worried.

Mother Never She Always Liked

You must take a definite idea, set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your furthest thoughts in such a way that they are all closely linked with the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.

Great Thoughts Thinking You Way

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

People Acting Say Kind Some People

My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.

Teacher Mom Accounting Math Firm

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

Responsibility Cool Kind Useless

Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.

Doris Eaton Travis

Family Father Mother Brother Person

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