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.
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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 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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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
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I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?
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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.
