Jay McShann Quotes
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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Boxing is not for killing.
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Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
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'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.
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I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
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One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.
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At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.
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I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.
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We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
