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.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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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?
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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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.
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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.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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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.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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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.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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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.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.
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E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
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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.
