Distinctive Quotes
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I`m so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it`s unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.
Scarlett Johansson
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[on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] Fred could never do the lifts Gene did and never wanted to. I`d say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on the screen. Each has a distinctive style. Each is a joy to work with. But it`s like comp...
Cyd Charisse
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You can really see a strong and distinctive line between `70s and `80s porn, not just in the quality but in the spirit behind it.
Paul Anderson
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You want to find a way to be distinctive, ... and I think this is a nice way.
Attorney Wes Nance
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WE`VE taken an already great product and added a new look we`re confident will appeal to a much wider audience. It has a distinctive Ford DNA, resembling the Ford Territory.
Barbara Weisel
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We`re in two distinctive businesses,
Lou Dobbs
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We want to protect the charm and distinctive character of the city, especially in the historic downtown.
Susan Blake
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Alvin Kernan
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The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
Allan Wade
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The character was so strong, particularly because of that distinctive voice, that nobody could picture me in any other type of role.
Don Adams
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Romania has a distinctive smell on its own, ... You`re in confined places with guys. ... I don`t think there`s too much body deodorant in Romania. It was definitely an experience as far as being in tight quarters with a lot of people, grown men.
Cole Hauser
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Romania has a distinctive smell on its own, ... Driving to set stunk and then getting to set stunk even worse. You`re in confined places with guys. And Europeans are not noted for their hygiene. I don`t think there`s too much body deodorant in Romania. It...
Cole Hauser
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Police and fire are two distinctive departments, ... It doesn`t work, but I will try to keep an open mind.
Michael MacDonald
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Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it`s partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they`ve seen me.
Todd Solondz
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Often the authorities have seemed more concerned with encouraging distinctive identities than with promoting common values of nationhood. We should learn lessons from abroad, from the United States, where pride in the nation`s values is much more prevalen...
David Davies
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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Akira Sasaki
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Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
Ethel Merman
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
James Weldon Johnson
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
James Weldon Johnson
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Northrop Frye
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I`m not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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I`d never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees` sound. I`m very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I`ll be identified as a Bee Gee.
Robin Gibb
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Andrea Wright
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
Al Tellechea
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Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it`s just going to sound dumb.
Brian Setzer
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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
Penelope Lively
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Oliver Stone
