Isom Innis Quotes
I lived in Boston for four or five years and would commute to New York to play gigs. New York City became so expensive, all the recording studios started shutting down because they couldn't afford rent anymore.Isom Innis
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My movies are not messed with by the studios.
Nancy Meyers -
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
Mandy Patinkin -
I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
Kevin Spacey -
You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
Chuck Berry -
You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.
Craig Brewer -
During the Vietnam War era people were concerned about what was going on economically in their lives, and film studios were worried about what was going on with the box office
Neil Meron
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It's crazy, it's different. It's what I wanted, but it's different. It's not exactly what I wanted, you know what I mean? If you become an actor you want to be a successful actor; but with success comes a lot of things. Some of it's great! It's great to be able to pay your rent from the work that you do.
Donald Faison -
We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.
Viktor Vekselberg -
But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.
Lord Byron -
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it.
Marco Mendoza Black Star Riders -
I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.
Damon Albarn Blur
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Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s -
We're playing small clubs and doing it all in a van. I have management, and they've done a good job of getting our tour plan together, but we're still having to go and rent the vehicles and all the little things you need to do. You really have to watch your budget.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s -
There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.
Tom Golisano -
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But while I'm doing vocal in a studio, I can't stand it.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.
Steve Tisch -
You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.
Cesar Romero
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
Terence McKenna -
The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.
Emma Walton Hamilton -
I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.
Ray Guy -
I lived in Boston for four or five years and would commute to New York to play gigs. New York City became so expensive, all the recording studios started shutting down because they couldn't afford rent anymore.
Isom Innis