Paul Desmond Quotes
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.
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Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.
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'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken.
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When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
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I essentially write for myself.
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There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
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We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
