Carla Bley Quotes
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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?
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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.
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I like risky stuff.
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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.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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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.
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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.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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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.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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My mom is a great entertainer.
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I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
