Carla Bley Quotes
I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Being evil is easy.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I wanted just one thing – to disappear.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
