T. S. Monk Quotes
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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There's no regrets for me.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!
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The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
