T. S. Monk Quotes
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
T. S. Monk
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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.
Larry Hovis
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
Jack O'Connell
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
Dan Quinn
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
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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.
Ted Danson
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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.'
Patricia Reilly Giff
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Pat Robertson
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
Jack Ma
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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.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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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.
Hamish Bowles
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
Marilyn Nelson
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When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.
Philippe Petit
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
Kate Voegele
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My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
T. S. Monk
