George Wein Quotes
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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I love doing kids' films.
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I can only focus on doing what's right.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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I always put my boxing first.
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You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
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I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.
