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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Dress how you're comfortable. Wear the makeup that you're comfortable in - or don't wear it.
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If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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For girls who want to get their waistline down a little bit and don't have any weights in the house, they can actually use a broom and put it behind their necks, lap over it and twist and squat. I do all of that if I don't go to the gym.
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I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.
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We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
