Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
Quotes to Explore
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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There is no wealth but life.
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We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
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There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.
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Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
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The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.
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I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
