Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.
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David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!
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I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
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The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.
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Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
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I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
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I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.
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I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.
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I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
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Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.
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Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.
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The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
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The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.
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Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right.
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Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
