John Lombardo Quotes
The music business has changed dramatically in the fifteen years I've been peripherally associated with it.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
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If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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The music business has changed dramatically in the fifteen years I've been peripherally associated with it.
