Patricia McBride Quotes

When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

Patricia McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1942

Topics

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My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.

Jesse L. Martin

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In my judgment, the president should reject Keystone and step up natural gas exports.

John Delaney

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When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

Sibel Kekilli

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For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make.

Tom Douglas

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I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Ruth Reichl

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I don't ever take anything for granted. I know... people would kill for the opportunity to play on festival stages and whatnot.

Mija

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It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.

Judith Butler

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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Joshua Reynolds

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Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

Dirk Kempthorne

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On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California.

Chelsea Manning

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The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

Colm Toibin

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

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