Chorus Line Quotes

• Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

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  Jeremy Irons

  Nice   Lines   Height  

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

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  Christopher Moore

  Grandmother   Self   Turkeys  

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• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

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  Chris Matthews

  Basketball   Dream   Jobs  

  Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

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  Michael Musto

  Queens   Years   Chicago  

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

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  Sharni Vinson

  Growing Up   Lines   Able  

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• Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

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  Wallace Stevens

  Stars   Power   Moon  

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• The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren

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  Sarah Vowell

  Reading   Warrior   Men  

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• I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

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  Rob Marshall

  Lines   Failing   Chorus  

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• I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.

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  Matthew West

  Football   Stars   Father  

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