Elvin Jones Quotes
I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.
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I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.
