Jay McShann Quotes
It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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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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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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A president's power is limited. We need to vote down the ballot as well, from your councilman all the way up to your governors and congressman.
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I love teaching; I love little kids.
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But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
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I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
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Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
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It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
