Gene Lees Quotes

There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.

Gene Lees

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• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Play

• I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Light
  • Baby
  • Mood

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Realize

• My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Great
  • America
  • Golf

• When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.

  

  Derrick Grayson
  • Soul
  • Fashion

• I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Up
  • World
  • Texas

• Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Fun
  • Sick
  • Dying

• My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Mom

• Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

  

  James Marsden
  • Boy

• I do not feel the need to play in Ligue 1, nor in the Premier League or in Serie A.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

  

  Mary Stewart
  • Blue
  • Stress

• Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People
  • Why

• Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Music
  • Die
  • Rock

• The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is basically like a comic-book version of the film. And then we do our own dialogue and music and sound effects, all in an effort to be able to basically sit in the theater and watch the movie before we shoot it, essentially.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Work
  • Music
  • Book

• 'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Christian
  • Painting
  • Fruit

• I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

  

  Maurice Allais
  • May
  • Parents
  • Small

• With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Different
  • Energy

• There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.

  

  Gene Lees
  • Running
  • Throwing
  • Dentist