Norman Granz Quotes
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.
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I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.
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I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don’t look good in pictures, even though they look great?
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My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
