Steve Swallow Quotes
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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Going to the conventions, seeing the incredible amount of love that people put into their clothing, costumes, gadgetry, and art of all kinds, is a huge treat for me.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I truly believe Accenture is a magnet for top talent in the new, not only because of the work we do for clients but because our culture supports employees who want to make a difference in the community where we live and work.
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I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was kind of like a documentary, which was different for me. The way everything was filmed was very casual.
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So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the throws of an emotion, and that is achieved by a collection of structures, some of which are in the brain stem, and some of which are in the cerebral cortex, namely the insular cortex, which I like to mention not because I think it's the most important, it's not.
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You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
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The City that knows how.
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My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.
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It's part of the whole process, I think. At this point, I can't see myself playing for any team but Chicago. But it's pretty much out of my hands.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.
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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent to a pair of ears. Mathematics can only be "seen" with the "eyes of the mind". It is as if we had no sense of hearing, so that only someone able to sight read music would be able to appreciate its patterns and harmonies.
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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
