Miles Davis Quotes
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis
Quotes to Explore
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
Carl Levin
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Zell Miller
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
Samantha Power
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
Rand Paul
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
Adam Davidson
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
Mara Wilson
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I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.
Edgar Ramirez
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
Orlando Bloom
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I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
Darin Strauss
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
Eddie Marsan
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.
Brad Williams
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis
