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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.


Queen Latifah
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I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.
Lesley Manville
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Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.
Richie Benaud
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If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen.


Terry Venables
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You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.
Glenn Turner
My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
Carol Burnett
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I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.
Paulette Goddard
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In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
Robert Fogel
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The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
Bun E. Carlos
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In each of my homes, I have a leopard room. I don't know why, but I do. It's like my lounge next to the dressing rooms.
Ivana Trump
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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin
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I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
Ringo Starr
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
Alastair Campbell
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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.


Biz Stone
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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.


Henry Williamson
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.


Barney Ross
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.


Mary Hunter Austin
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There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
John Agyekum Kufuor
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