Norman Granz Quotes
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.
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Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
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The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.
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As I get older, I think I'm more interested in comedy that doesn't take cheap shots. But I watched some of that Justin Bieber "roast" and I thought it was hilarious.
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The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
