Charles Alfred Leavell (Chuck Leavell) Quotes
Phil always knew how to recognize trends and he knew how to recognize talent within those trends.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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Failure is a part of success.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.
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It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
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I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two hours of English and four hours of Chinese. I thought, what do I need this for? So I stopped going to class.
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Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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Phil always knew how to recognize trends and he knew how to recognize talent within those trends.
