David Amram Quotes

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

David Amram

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• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Small

• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Small

• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• I was definitely a Daddy's boy.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Boy
  • Definitely
  • Daddy

• I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Way
  • Working
  • Opposite

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot of folks who are from there and a lot of big families, a lot of musical families, a lot of history, a lot of tradition, but I like to think of New Orleans as an idea.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • People
  • History
  • City

• Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Reality
  • Star
  • Doors

• I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Wrestling
  • Retirement

• I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Down

• There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • World
  • Want
  • Now

• I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Free
  • Small

• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Person
  • Illusion
  • Meet

• I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

  

  Sia LSD

• My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Husband

• The only true love I ever knew was behind those downcast eyes. The only comfort I ever felt was during those long hours of loneliness when I felt for you. I do believe only Innocence can save the world.

  

  Tuomas Holopainen Nightwish
  • Believe
  • Loneliness
  • Save

• It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

  

  Willa Fitzgerald
  • Parents
  • Actor
  • Plays

• If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Live
  • Song
  • Singing

• Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

  

  David Amram