Billy Strayhorn Quotes

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

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• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

  Jack Vance
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  • Writing
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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
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  • Work
  • Music

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Mind
  • Free

• Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

  

  Obie Trice
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  • Know
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• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
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  • Hurt
  • See

• I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

  

  Yancy Butler
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  • Experience

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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  • Good
  • Dad

• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

  Ed Weeks
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  • Think
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• I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

  

  Maika Monroe
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  • Think
  • Adrenaline

• My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

  

  Dana Perino
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  • Me
  • Dad

• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

  Laura Donnelly
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  • Acting
  • Research

• About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

  

  Dan Hicks
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  • Girl
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• You have good days and bad days.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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  • Financial
  • Crisis

• When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

  

  Laura Osnes
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  • Job
  • Community

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Artist
  • Wrong

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  

  Larry King
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  • Good
  • Business

• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, 'I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.'

  

  Plutarch
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• Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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  • Fear
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• A candle is enough to light the world. It makes it clear. Even at noon It glistens in essential dark. At night, it lights the fruit and wine, The book and bread, things as they are...

  

  Wallace Stevens
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  • Book
  • Night

• The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

  

  Fawn Hall
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  • House
  • Me

• As far as police go, if officers are really that scared or timid on the streets, maybe they shouldn't be police officers. Their job is to protect and serve and they're supposed to be the bravest of the brave.

  

  Brandon Marshall
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  • Protect
  • Supposed

• My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

  

  Billy Strayhorn
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  • Grandmother