Gregory Hines Quotes

#1. I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

Jasmine Guy

#2. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

Laurieann Gibson

#3. Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.

Wendell Pierce

#4. My father has always been my hero.

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#5. Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

Joyce Meyer

#6. I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

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#7. Who in the hot hunk of sex are you?

Harper Sloan

#8. Breathing became a painful chore. Her lips turned down while her warm fingers caressed my cheek. That touch typically brought me to knees, but now it cut me open.

Katie McGarry

#9. I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be 'up'.

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#10. Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

Donald Judd

#11. I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

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#12. I can be afraid with you and still know I'm safe. That's the difference. That's why I love you.

Jaime Samms

#13. I like to do an interview when the other person isn't expecting it. I find it's more spontaneous.

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#14. I'm going to tap until I can't: I'll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage center. But I'll be there.

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#15. With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

Lee Haney

#16. The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Khalil Gibran

#17. I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

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#18. The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.

Wu Han

#19. My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

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#20. One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.

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#21. It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

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#22. The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

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#23. As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

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#24. Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Kate DiCamillo

#25. You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

Lupe Fiasco

#26. I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.

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#27. They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.

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#28. You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.

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#29. Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

Thomas Middleton

#30. Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.

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#31. I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

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#32. They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.

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#33. It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.

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#34. Katie had slept through morning mass but she could still go to confession and make an effort to banish her unholy and unhealthy thoughts. Mother never asked what she was thinking and feeling on these trips; she just assumed that anything Katie had on her mind was dirty and sinful.

Carol Storm

#35. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end.

James S.A. Corey

#36. Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

S.J Perelman

#37. We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

Charles R. Swindoll

#38. I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

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#39. My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

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#40. When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.

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