Gary Burton Quotes
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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Don't limit your audience.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.
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How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
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The best part appearing in 'Jersey Girl' was meeting my idol Jennifer Lopez.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
