George Shearing Quotes
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.
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The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite.
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When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
