John Haley Sims (Zoot Sims) Quotes
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I'm trying my best.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
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Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
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Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
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Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
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Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.
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A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.
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As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.
