Gypsy Quotes - Page 4

• I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!

  Neon Hitch

  New York, Garden, Mirrors

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.

  Karen Abbott

  Character, Practice, Style

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.

  Karen Abbott

  Kids, June, Rose

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

  Karen Abbott

  Mother, Rose, Musical

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'. That was the clincher; I had to write about this woman.

  Karen Abbott

  Writing, Rose, Shining

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.

  Karen Abbott

  Cousin, Simple, Thinking

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

  Franz Liszt

  Numbers, Musician, Firsts

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• I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.

  Karen Abbott

  Mother, Sorry, Writing

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Europe, Diaspora, London

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle.

  Maureen McGovern

  Years, Circles, Careers

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• There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style or a 'gypsy' style. I'm not very good at that sort of playing at all. I think it's important as a session musician to have your own voice.

  Ric Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Play

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• I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Baby, Children, Real

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Couple, Mean

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

  Garry Winogrand

  New York, Couple, Years

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.

  Zoë Heller

  Rose, Trying, Paint

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Stories, West, Sides

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• Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

  Albert Einstein

  Age, Tendencies, Inherent

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

  Kam Williams

  Trying, Ambitious, Passionate

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• I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

  Noomi Rapace

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

  Gary Gulman

  Guitar, Talent, Remarkable

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• A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

  Dolly Parton

  Kind, All Kinds, Great Things

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• She once said, 'I'm really a little prudish, which people may think incongruous'. I take a prudish point of view on certain films, books, and trends. Then, I pull myself up short and ask myself how Gypsy Rose Lee could possibly be this way.I thought that quote was so telling, a key insight into the way she so carefully separated who she was from her meticulous creation.

  Karen Abbott

  Book, Thinking, Keys

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as well. I'm funny about numbers. It's become a phobia, so I have to watch it. It affects your day a lot. Before I go on stage, there are certain things I do that are semi-sort of Gypsy superstitious things, but I'm coping with them. It hasn't affected the music, thank God. If you got really bad, you'd say "I'll pick that note instead of that one or sing this song before that.

  Rory Gallagher

  Song, Grandmother, Years

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• My father is a gypsy. He traveled in caravans and was branded by the Ku Klux Klan. You know I have a history about race in my family that has very much to do with the other things that you name about poverty, about class, about access - or lack of it.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Father, Race, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm from a Gypsy background!

  Cher

  Backgrounds

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