Gary Bartz Quotes
Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.
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I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
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Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
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My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.
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I don't think about competition. I am definitely attracted to not just playing a regular character - I don't know there's any such thing as "regular. In American Crime, I get to play a runaway who's living with her pimp in North Carolina and she's a prostitute, but she's a victim of human trafficking because she's under 18. I like those roles. That's what I wanted; I wanted to play someone that was a challenge.
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Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.
