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Stanley Donen has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
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I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.
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I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
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Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
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My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
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What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
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When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.
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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me,…
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It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city…
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People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed,…
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The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby…
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There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me…
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...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real…
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The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day…
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There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me…
— Stanley Donen
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It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is…
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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the…
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