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I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.


John Fogerty


#brown #dance #elements #great #great people

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.


Jane Fonda


#admired #against #family #fascism #father

I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.


Gemma Ward


#always #bring #chooses #choosing #discipline

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?


Walt Whitman


#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.


Rowan D. Williams


#age #culture #envied #might #sensitive

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.


George Woodcock


#been #better #contemporaries #early #early thirties

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.


Edward Young


#admired #beyond #explained #logic #mystery

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#again #book #dead #dog #feet

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.


Thom Gunn


#being #class #directly #each #i

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood.


Ethan Hawke


#clint #clint eastwood #eastwood #ever #except






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