Quincy Jones Quotes
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I try to do my best.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.
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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
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Trying to coordinate everything, it can be really hard to balance.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
