Charlie Haden Quotes
I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High))
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At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
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When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.
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I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.
