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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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.
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I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
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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.
