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I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!
Aretha Franklin
Nurse
Guess
Aretha
Prima
Ballerina
Been
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters
Success
You
Nice
Ways
Out
Insecurities
Take
Prima
Come
Make
Edges
Smooth
Go
Nice Things
Away
Things
Two
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson
Good
Engineer
Few
Engineering
Design
Possible
Prima
Ideas
Makes
Scientist
Person
Who
Original
Works
Original Ideas
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
George S. Patton
Must
Prima
Very
Successful
Treated
In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.
Alastair Cook
You
Hate
Arrogance
World
Rest
See
Prima
Around
End
Very
In The End
Little
Means
England
Why
Playing
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
Artie Lange
First
Country
Once
Say
Run
Castro
Prima
Name
First Name
Dealt
His
Movie
Movie Set
Fidel Castro
Communist
Who
Set
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
Dan Rather
Me
Business
Prima
Performing
Egomaniac
Turn
Including
Filled
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. Forster
Best
Suits
Too Much
Face
Beauty
Too
Ought
Emotion
Prima
Reminds
Look
She
Accepts
Does
Due
Surprised
Little
Us
Much
Who
Her
Position
I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!
Haley Webb
Never Give Up
Will
Dancer
Backup
Dream
Give
Never
Prima
Ballerina
Up
Being
Justin
Justin Timberlake
The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.
Jennifer Ellison
Me
Cake
Scary
More
Prima
Piece
Arms
Gordon
Were
Than
Scream
Taught
Legs
After
Them
Far
Who
Pull
Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.
Jerry Leiber
Work
Try
Incredibly
Elvis
Would
Diva
He
Prima
Came
Anything
Cooperative
I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen Campbell is almost unbelievable.
Jimmy Webb
God
Me
Think
Evidence
Unbelievable
Prima
Almost
Because
Existence
End
Up
Campbell
Working
Grow
Grow Up
Actually
My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.
Ksenia Solo
Mom
Family
Women
Dance
Dancing
Way
Kid
Prima
Since
Because
Ballerina
Been
Up
Very
Artists
Grew
Either
Former
Little
Little Kid
Acting
Lucky
Choreography
Actually
Associated
One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.
Mauro Ranallo
You
People
Better
Think
Other
One Thing
Prima
Learned
Than
Order
Succeed
Thing
My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.
Michael Giacchino
Love
Music
Great
Jazz
Benny
Niro
Guy
Pianist
Colours
Had
Prima
Obsessed
Goodman
Another
Mexican
Irish
Louis
Different
Loved
Different Colours
International
Peter
Dad
Albums
I love Glenn Gould. Max Steiner. John Williams. Louis Prima. Benny Goodman. Miles Davis. John Philip Sousa.
Michael Giacchino
Love
Philip
Benny
Williams
John
Davis
Prima
Glenn
Goodman
Louis
Max
Miles
Miles Davis
Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.
Michael Hayden
Intelligence
Face
Intelligence Community
Community
Rejection
Positions
Analyst
Evidence
Favored
About
Prima
Unusual
Passionate
American
Even
Presence
Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.
Montserrat Caballe
Wonderful
Other
Colleagues
Prima
Course
Around
Younger
Many
The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.
Nigel Cole
Nice
Difficult
Ruined
Say
Insane
Paranoid
About
Directors
Prima
Mostly
Nonsense
Very
Same
Hollywood
Producers
Certainly
Who
Popular
Found
Actor
Image
Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Key
Space
Black
Evidence
Has-Been
Black Holes
Prima
Likely
Opera
Been
Role
Mounting
Formation
Process
Holes
Galaxy
Appears
Now
Play
There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!
William Wyler
Me
Only
Prima
Pictures
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