Top 42 Quotes About Verdon
#1. Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon intimidated us all because she walked in and was going to be the dance captain. She was a great star, but she loved that kind of work as his assistant.
Donna McKechnie
#2. To go back to visit the early days with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, when she was the dance captain of 'How to Succeed,' and finding them again 25 years later and working with them on 'Charity.' That was really great fun.
Donna McKechnie
#3. For her, people in general were a plus, a source of positive stimulation (with exceptions such as the predatory Sonya Reynolds). For Gurney, people in general were a minus, a drain on his energy (with exception such as the encouraging Sonya Reynolds).
John Verdon
#4. The person I think I am is terrified of the person I really am, terrified of what others would think of that person. What would they do to me if they knew the person I really was? Better to be safe! Better to hide the real person, starve the real person, bury the real person!
John Verdon
#5. The sun sets and we sleep. The sun rises and we wake. We wake and, ever so briefly, ever so blindly, we enjoy the fantasy of beginning anew. Then, without fail, reality reasserts its presence.
John Verdon
#6. Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.
Napoleon Hill
#8. How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?
Peggy Webb
#9. Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
Gwen Verdon
#10. But grief, he'd discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then 'moved on' (as the idiotic popular phrase would have it). The truth was that it came over you in successive waves - waves separated by periods of numbness, periods of forgetfulness, periods of ordinary living.
John Verdon
#11. It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without.
Ralph Bouma
#12. This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion ... You're a natural-born onion peeler
the best that ever was.
John Verdon
#13. I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.
Gwen Verdon
#14. The fact that no one was dead persuaded him that he was on the right track
John Verdon
#15. He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take shape, however erroneous it might be, the mind unconsciously favors any data points that support it and discounts any that don't.
John Verdon
#17. Whatever it was that had drawn him to police work, that had wed him to the job for so many years, it surely wasn't the appeal of a gun or the deceptively simple solution it offers.
John Verdon
#18. Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.
John Verdon
#20. That boulder is your image of yourself, who you think you are. The person you think you are is keeping the person you really are locked up without light or food or friends. The person you think you are has been trying to murder the person you really are for as long as you both have lived.
John Verdon
#21. Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
Paracelsus
#22. She was a born liar, Hope thought. It was incredible. She should skip the modeling career and go straight to politics. "I
Elin Hilderbrand
#23. But how could he stop being what he was? However much he cared for her, however much he wanted to be with her, however much he wanted her to be happy, how could he become someone he wasn't?
John Verdon
#24. The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge
the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.
John Verdon
#25. They looked like linebackers on a prison football team, whose idea of commincation was to smash into something at full speed, preferably another person.
John Verdon
#26. Hardwick was showing the frustration of a man trying to hold his groceries inside a ripped bag.
John Verdon
#27. You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.
R. Kelly
#28. A shrink once told me that an exception is a resentment waiting to be born.
John Verdon
#29. The mind is a mass of contradictions and conflicts. We lie to make others trust us. We hide our true selves in the pursuit of intimacy. We chase happiness in ways that drive happiness away. When we're wrong we fight the hardest to prove we're right. Caught
John Verdon
#30. We each seem to be wired to believe my situation causes my problems but your personality causes yours. This creates trouble.
John Verdon
#31. What he took he will give, when he gets what he gave.
John Verdon
#32. Few behaviors of other people are more irritating than those that display our own faults in an unattractive way.
John Verdon
#33. People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.
Dita Von Teese
#34. He knew how isolated he could become and hardly notice it was happening. How relationships could slip away like smoke in the breeze. How easily he could sink into himself. How natural and benign his isolating obsessions could seem.
John Verdon
#35. I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.
Gwen Verdon
#36. The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.
John Verdon
#38. Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Kangana Ranaut
#39. The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.
John Verdon
#40. The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
Leonard Ravenhill
#41. The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them. HS/el
Evinda Lepins
#42. How many bright angels can dance on a pin? How many hopes drown in a bottle of gin? Did the thought ever come that your glass was a gun and one day you'd wonder, God, what have I done?
John Verdon
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