Jon Batiste Quotes
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
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Some liberals have a problem with me simply because I work at Fox, and nothing I do short of storming off the set in a rage will get them to respect that I work there.
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Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.
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Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.
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With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
