Billy Strayhorn Quotes
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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I was shot from the funny gun.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
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They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.
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I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture - it's a town of entertainment.
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Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
