Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Cecil Taylor

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• Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Help
  • House

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Thought

• I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Different
  • Couple
  • Back

• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Guy
  • Understanding
  • Hero

• If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • World
  • Food
  • Simple

• For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Diversity

• I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Success
  • Taken

• I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Career

• Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Poverty

• When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Control

• One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Live
  • Focus

• I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

  

  Aubrey Plaza

• There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

  

  David Milch
  • Money
  • Blow

• You always expect to hit for more power.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Power

• The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Trying
  • Education
  • Poverty

• If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • World
  • Trying
  • Search

• The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mind

• They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Up
  • Black
  • Sex

• I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Trying
  • Space
  • Piano