Cannonball Adderley Quotes

Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.

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• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Struggle

• First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Singing

• There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Like

• When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Single
  • Author

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Never
  • Learned

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • High
  • Feeling

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • People
  • Fight
  • Rhythm

• What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Why
  • Movie

• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Annoying

• When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Got
  • Younger
  • Bullied

• Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Experience

• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Funny

• When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Comedy
  • Ego

• I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • American
  • Inspired

• The strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Country
  • Citizen
  • Knees

• The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and you first take a line of coke and then you open the Bible. Because then you understand.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Book
  • Bible

• Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.

  

  Cannonball Adderley
  • Important
  • Understanding
  • Understood