Carla Bley Quotes
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so sweet, and I love her.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I love Coco de Mer.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
