Quincy Jones Quotes
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.
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The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it.
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Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That's something that had never been done.
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I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
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Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
