Gayle King Quotes
Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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The world is always terrible.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
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If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.
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I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.
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I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.
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From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions.
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Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!
