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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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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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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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
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While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.
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I find I'm an old soul.
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It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.
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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.
