Allan Carl Newman (A.C. Newman) Quotes
As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
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The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.
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The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.
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As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
