Carla Bley Quotes

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

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• Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Movie
  • Like

• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• I like risky stuff.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Risky

• Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
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  • School

• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Like
  • Shapes
  • Feminine

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Like

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
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  • Me

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
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  • Hours

• The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

  

  Halston Sage
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  • Summer

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
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  • Pretty

• John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Like
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  • Outsourcing

• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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  • Movie
  • You

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
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• I love hot yoga. I go to a sculpt class with weights. That's really good for the core and it's obviously super hot. I love cardio bar. I'm not a big gym fan, so I like to go to classes.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Good
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  • Classes

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

  

  Ric Flair
  • Women
  • Like

• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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  • World

• Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Friends
  • New

• With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

  

  Charles Grodin

• One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Up
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• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Sophisticated