Ray Conniff Quotes
If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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Midi is my hobby.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
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I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.
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Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
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Well, Milo learned HIS lesson. Pederasty acceptable only for refugees and illegals. Then libs will support you.
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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
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What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.
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If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.
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It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
