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.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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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.'
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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.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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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.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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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.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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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?
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
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God love the iPhone. Best time waster of the century.
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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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.
