Norman Granz Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
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I have crushes on women all the time.
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I really like cable T.V.
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Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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The fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation’s creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.
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Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
