Charlie Haden Quotes
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
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The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pink and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smudge of dirt.. .I have fourteen canvases underway.
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For fast acting relief, try slowing down.
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Gary Ross is just an incredible director, and it was great to have someone like him.
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If the prime minister was in the know of it, then he is equally culpable. If he was not aware, then it is for him to introspect as to what kind of government he is running.
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Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.
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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
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When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
