Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes
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If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
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I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.
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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.
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I feel things deeply.
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You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
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The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
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Cause I'm a stealer, fresh up out the dealer All the dope boys gon feel her
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I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.
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[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.
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To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.
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The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.
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I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
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The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
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I feel less connected with Millennials than ever.
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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
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You know, we’re not on stage, we’re not doing a play, so we don’t have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.
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I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.
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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.
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I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.
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To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.