Audra McDonald Quotes

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.

Audra McDonald

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As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

Jim Crace

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I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.

John Updike

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What was so lovely about 'O.J.' and 'This Is Us' to a certain extent is that I got a chance to surprise people.

Sterling K. Brown

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My brother's a blast to direct; he's one of those great characters who brings so much to every scene he's in, and we're pals.

Ron Howard

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I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.

Judy Holliday

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What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

Chiang Kai-shek

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Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Chuck Schumer

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During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Bobby Knight

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When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Britt Robertson

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I'm always inspired by anything in 'Vogue,' anything that's been in 'Vogue.'

Aquaria

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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Annie Leibovitz

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