Erroll Garner Quotes
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
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I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.
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Bile is not ONLY the real key to the body’s ability to digest and assimilate fats, but it is also a vehicle for removing toxins from your body so they can be flushed out through the colon.
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My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
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Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.