Percy Heath Quotes

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

Percy Heath

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• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Never
  • Something

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Family
  • Age
  • River

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Fall

• I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Perfect

• If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Marketing
  • Online
  • Shop

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Done
  • Boss
  • Him

• The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Real
  • Energy

• I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Myself
  • Call
  • Literary

• When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Like
  • Enough
  • Mature

• I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Live
  • Always

• My aunts still try to fatten me up.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Me
  • Try

• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Playing
  • Just
  • Started

• Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Literature

• I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?'

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • People
  • Hair
  • Beard

• There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Long
  • Help
  • Community

• Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morality
  • Despair
  • Self-interested

• In the pursuit of truth we must beware of being misled by terms which we do not rightly understand. That is the chief point. Almost all philosophers utter the caution; few observe it.

  

  George Berkeley
  • Truth

• I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

  

  Percy Heath