Nat King Cole Quotes
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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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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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
