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Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Rachel Weisz
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
Olav Thon
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
Dan Stevens
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
Brown Campbell
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
Balaji S. Srinivasan
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
Abraham Verghese
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
Taslima Nasrin
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
Q-Tip
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I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
Angelina Jolie
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We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world as in Christianity, but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.
Ernst Haeckel
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
Damien Chazelle
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I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action ...
Stephanie Perkins
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Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.
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