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.Nelson Riddle
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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 -
Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
Eric Lynn Wright -
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 -
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
Taylor Momsen -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
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
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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.
Vin Diesel -
I've laid my friends bare.
Joanne Rowling -
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
Famke Janssen -
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 -
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
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
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
Daniel Cormier -
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 -
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney -
You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
Carl Hagelin -
Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
Iris Apfel -
I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
Oksana Baiul
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Meetings with no goal, also known as 'coffee shop' meetings, can be huge time wasters if you're not efficient with them. 'Always know why you're meeting, and make sure it's important - try to keep them to 30 minutes, max.
David Cohen -
FaceTime is a life saver for relationships and for family.
Erika Christensen -
I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
P. C. Cast -
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
Ernest Lehman -
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