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
Quotes to Explore
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
Ed Markey -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett -
There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
Parker Posey -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
Ram Dass -
I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
Laura Dern
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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 -
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 -
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
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 -
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Jack Vance -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
Tanith Lee -
Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
Carl Jung -
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
Learned Hand
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The time to build a network is always before you need one.
Douglas Conant -
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Edmund Clarence Stedman -
People expect your life to change completely. The main difference is I can get work now. I can do my hobby as a job. It's great. It's a privilege. But in terms of the rest of the stuff, I still got all the same group of friends I always had. I don't do anything different. We still go to the same dirty bars and do the same things. So nothing really changes.
Jeremy Irvine -
If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
Eugene Grace -
It's so great to be able to inspire these young women today to get involved in male-dominated subjects.
Katie Taylor -
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