Hal Blaine Quotes
You've got to be the master of your instrument, you've got to be dedicated, and you've got to do a lot of practicing, especially in the beginning, once you've got it, you've got it. It will always be with you.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Ennio Morricone is royalty. He doesn't really do this a lot and Quentin brought him back in Hateful Eight. Quentin Tarantino basically went back and made his The Good, The Bad and The Ugly-kind of film, the ultimate epic spaghetti western, and then you've got mister spaghetti western himself scoring your movie. It's gonna be hard to not vote for him in a landslide. Probably the easiest win of the night.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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You've got to be the master of your instrument, you've got to be dedicated, and you've got to do a lot of practicing, especially in the beginning, once you've got it, you've got it. It will always be with you.
