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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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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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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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
Tanith Lee
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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
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Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?
Norman Bethune
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I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to the experiences and hallucinations of deep trance.
David Lewis-Williams
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus
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Being happy never goes out of style.
Lilly Pulitzer
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
Ned Vizzini
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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
