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.

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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
  • Difficult
  • Need
  • Tools

• 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
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• 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
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Passion

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Me
  • Saying

• 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
  • Family
  • Home
  • Him

• 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
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• 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
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Act

• 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
  • Book
  • Think
  • Project

• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Nature
  • Water
  • Fire

• 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
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Interesting

• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Me
  • Young
  • Influence

• 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
  • Food
  • Passionate
  • Cook

• The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• 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
  • People
  • Black
  • Chinese

• 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
  • Bible
  • More
  • Concrete

• 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
  • Life
  • Live
  • Journey

• The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Sun
  • Sky

• 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
  • Die

• I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

  

  Bernie Leadon The Eagles
  • Writing
  • Moving

• In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Religious

• Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Fear

• I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Really

• 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