Woody Shaw Quotes
The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I love 'Glee.'
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
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Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. 'In love-ness' is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about 'happy' and 'unhappy' marriages.
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We can only have true public safety with public trust.
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It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.
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I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
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I signed 'Aurangzeb' because I loved the story. I thought it was an untold tale. For whatever reason, the audience did not like the film. Fair enough, but I still enjoyed the process.
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Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
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The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.
