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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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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Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
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Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
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Pop music will never be low brow.
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Everything in my life really filters down to the music.
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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I'm a huge fan of Nawazuddin.
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
