Ray Conniff Quotes
I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
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Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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I write a world where everyone is partly right.
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When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
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I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.
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I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
