Dick Cavett Quotes

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Dick Cavett

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I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

Viola Davis

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We are going to make every effort to have a transparent administration.

Joao Lourenco

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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

Robert Smith

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Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.

Robert Kennedy

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There's no shame in being a support act for anyone. It's been extremely beneficial for us to be allowed onstage for any of the artists we've toured with, and we've gotten some big exposure from them sharing their crowds with us in the past.

Matthew Ramsey

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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

John Starks

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I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Amy Sedaris

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I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.

Sonia Sotomayor

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A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Lou Rawls

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We still have a very good core following, and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out.

Josh Silver

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I don't have any angel blood, as far as I know.

Dominic Sherwood

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