Donald O'Connor Quotes

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Donald O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
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  • Birth: August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003

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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Jill McCorkle

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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

John Green

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I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

Andrew Lincoln

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A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

John Wells

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There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

Amy Lee

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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Sophocles

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I eat pots of honey everywhere I go. I like anything sugary. And baths. I spend five hours in the bath. I eat in the bath.

Suki Waterhouse

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I have, from time to time, stopped using it for books, when they pissed me off about something - the negotiation with Hachette, for instance. I thought that was outrageous bullying, and I discontinued using Amazon for books. I did use it for socks, but I didn't use it to buy books.

Sonny Mehta

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The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.

Robert Zubrin

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Football unites, and no one can use a football platform for political means.

Julen Lopetegui

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Legacies are built on the practices of your company.

Julia Hartz

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

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