John Zorn Quotes
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.
John Zorn
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn
Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
Garret Dillahunt
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
Iggy Azalea
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie
Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
Zhang Jindong
I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
Paloma Faith
If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
Idina Menzel
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
Val Guest
I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
Gary Sherman
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Warren Bennis
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill
The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
Cameron Mathison
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
Carl Orff
It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
Viktor Orban
I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
Garry Shandling
I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
Kate Winslet
I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
Nate Parker
I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
Andrew Benintendi
I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.
Melanie Lynskey
I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.
Jason Reitman
I tend to stay away from the comics.
Idris Elba
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
Don DeLillo
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.
John Zorn
