Gary Bartz Quotes
I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
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Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
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I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.
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In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.
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Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?
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I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.
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I want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.
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It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.
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There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
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I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.
