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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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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Ch. 2 Relativity
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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My parents didn't play golf.
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Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'
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Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.
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It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
