Edwin Lefevre Quotes
The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.
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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.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
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So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.
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There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
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The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.
