Carla Bley Quotes
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
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I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.
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I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
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Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
