Page McConnell Quotes
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.
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The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
