Kurt Elling Quotes
I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
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I think about Dischord. There's been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of "overlords" of the scene. Some people have felt 'they are too cool for us,' or 'they won't put this out,' etc. All we're doing is our own work, our own thing. That's all we've ever done. Our work.
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It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
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A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
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I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.
