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I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
Judith Jamison
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Our great American writers were all newspaper people.


John Gould
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The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.
Rick Perry
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
Don Cornelius
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There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.


William Nicholson
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.


W. Somerset Maugham
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If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood
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I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
Al Lopez
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.


Edgar Winter
In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had all of these great composers write songs for him. They call it the Great American Songbook; I call it the Fred Astaire Songbook because they were written for him.
Tony Bennett
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For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
Robert Littell
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As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
Uday Kotak
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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
George Packer
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Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.
Sharon Horgan
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.


Rose Kennedy
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Regis has a great rapport with the American public.


Wink Martindale
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
Neko Case
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
Laurence Housman
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When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.
Tim Huelskamp