John Dewey Quotes
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.
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Crime does not pay as well as politics.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.
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The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero's journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.
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As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
