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I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. Carmen Electra
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. John Fahey
Clifton Paul Fadiman quote: "When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more..."
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. Clifton Paul Fadiman
Chiwetel Ejiofor quote: "I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could..."
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Cliff Fadiman quote: "When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book..."
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. Cliff Fadiman
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. Lawrence Clark Powell
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. Bobby McFerrin
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand quote: "I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal."
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. Frances McDormand
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world. Natalie Portman
It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard is classical training. They don't really want to focus on what you do well - that's what got you into the school. They're training you to do other stuff well, which may not come easily to you. Viola Davis
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music. Kristin Davis
So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country. Robert McChesney
John Polkinghorne quote: "I think it's very important to maintain the classical..."
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation. John Polkinghorne
Parker Stevenson quote: "I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better. Parker Stevenson

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