Carla Bley Quotes
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
