Nelson Riddle Quotes

He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.

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• All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • World
  • Saying

• Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Reality
  • Rap
  • Going

• I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Mother
  • Game
  • Strength

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Change
  • Star

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• I've laid my friends bare.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Friends
  • Laid
  • Bare

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Career

• Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Time
  • Society
  • Black

• My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Today
  • Culture

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?

  

  Willa Cather
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Secret

• There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

  

  Kathleen Tessaro
  • Difficult
  • Simplicity
  • Refined

• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Never
  • Learned

• All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Reason
  • Judge
  • Learned

• He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.

  

  Nelson Riddle
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