Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.
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I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.
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Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.
