Kurt Elling Quotes
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
Kurt Elling
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
Tamsin Egerton
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
Sally Phillips
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
Vikram Seth
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When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
Warren Ellis
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
Oscar Hijuelos
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Jack Vance
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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
Ted Allen
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
Nathan Wolfe
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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
Quincy Jones
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. Hinton
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The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
G. Willow Wilson
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It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.
Rachel Keller
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By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.
Eric Flint
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I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
Jerome Charyn
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For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
Brie Larson
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People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.
Arthur Marx
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You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
Kurt Elling
