Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I like Drake's stuff.
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I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
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Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.
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The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.
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To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
