Stan Getz Quotes
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
Quotes to Explore
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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There's no better exercise than dancing. 'Dancing with the Stars' is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn't stick.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
