#gr

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#familiarity #flashy #great #great deal #how

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#defend #doctrine #every #gross #make

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#aware #consciously #dancers #enough #go

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress. ↗

— Artur Davis

#alabama #constitution #language #necessary #progress

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. ↗

— Angela Davis

#country #during #early #grew #how

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #around #celebrity #confuse #country

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. ↗

— Bette Davis

#chance #create #dream #fulfill #given

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. ↗

— Bette Davis

#after #beginning #durable #flooded #great

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. ↗

— Bette Davis

#any #business #dare #enemy #get

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ↗

— Bette Davis

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