Bill Frisell Quotes
Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.
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You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong…
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Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
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There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.
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Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.
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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
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It's a real privilege to make movies.
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I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
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Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.
