Nat King Cole Quotes
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.
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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
