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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.

  Sharni Vinson

  Growing Up, Lines, Able

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• In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

  Jane Addams

  Voice, Differences, Unity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

  Robert Burns

  Laughter, Laughing, Ready

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.92

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• Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Government, World

  "The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940".

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• Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

  Adam Shankman

  First Love, Boys, Dancing

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• I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

  Perez Hilton

  Real, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.

  Ani DiFranco

  Who I Am, Should Have, Voice

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• When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasnt good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.

  Michael Weatherly

  New York, Guitar, Waiting

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• I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.'' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.

  Charlie Cox

  Crazy, School, Play

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

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• And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

  Pete Seeger

  Feet, People, Ceilings

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• Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

  Joanna Baillie

  Moving, Justice, Boat

  Joanna Baillie, Judith Bailey Slagle (1999). “The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie”, p.128, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial.

  Mark Galli

  People, Church, Culture

  Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.95, Baker Books

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• The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hate, Sight, Opposites

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.86, Random House

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• Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

  Aristophanes

  Wind, Way, Gallant

  "Lysistrata". Book by Aristophanes, 410 BCE.

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• I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

  Claire Messud

  Writing, Voice, Missing

  "Great Male Protagonists We Wouldn’t Want to Be Friends With" by Claire Fallon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

  Patti LaBelle

  Trouble, Performing, Decided

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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Character, Swings

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• I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

  Bob Seger

  Singing, Playing Music, Lines

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• ...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.

  Bruno Schulz

  Fire, Two, Piano

  Bruno Schulz (1963). “Cinnamon Shops: And Other Stories”

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• A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

  Deborah Smith

  Children, Husband, Smart

  Deborah Smith (2009). “On Bear Mountain”, p.229, BelleBooks

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• We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

  Barack Obama

  Reality, Offering, Voice

  Barack Obama’s New Hampshire Primary Speech, www.nytimes.com. January 08, 2008.

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• It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

  Emma Forrest

  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

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• I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Sorry, Loss, Awful

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

  Milt Jackson

  Music, Four, Jazz

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