Dave Brubeck Quotes

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• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • You
  • Try

• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
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  • Love
  • Power

• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
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  • Time
  • Important

• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fighting

• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Family
  • English

• Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Marketing

• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thought

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
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  • Up
  • Time

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • True
  • Religion

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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  • Writing
  • Procrastinator

• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • You
  • Cool

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Doing

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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  • Want
  • English

• One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

  

  Patton Oswalt
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  • Great
  • Help

• OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.

  

  Dave Winer
  • Why

• There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Sea

• If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Alone
  • Write
  • Read

• These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Giving
  • Needs

• Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

  

  Dave Brubeck
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