John Zorn Quotes
I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Women drive box office.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.
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I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
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Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.
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I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.
