Ray Bolger Quotes

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

Ray Bolger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 10, 1904 - January 15, 1987

Topics

ComedyDoingKnowDancingGetOff

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Jeremy Irons

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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Jeff Tweedy

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I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

Jasper Fforde

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If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'

Diablo Cody

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String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

Brian Greene

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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

William Shakespeare

MeSweetHeavenMadTemperKeep

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

Syd Barrett

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After I graduated Star City school, I entered to the Tambov Military School of Pilots because I really wanted to be a pilot, and in Russia, it's one of the steps of how you make a career as a cosmonaut. You have to be a military pilot or an engineer.

Sergey Volkov

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McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

Thomas Friedman

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All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.

Norman Davies

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To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Richard Perle

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I always eat a meal at home before I leave for the airport, so I only eat the soup and salad on the plane.

Nobu Matsuhisa

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