Van Morrison Quotes

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

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• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
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• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
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• I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

  

  Valerie June
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• The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

  

  Usher
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• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
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• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

  

  Yvette Clarke
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• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
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• The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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• Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.

  

  Delta Goodrem
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• We're going to go and play the songs one more time. It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
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• When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.

  

  Bradford Cox
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• Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

  

  Karen Barber
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• There's only so much planning you can do when it comes to pregnancies, y'know.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
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• The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

  

  Van Morrison
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