David Amram Quotes
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
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That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.
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The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.
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In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
