Bill Jay Quotes
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
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I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
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I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
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Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.
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Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
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I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.
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A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.
