Pat Metheny Quotes
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
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I tell the most horrible jokes.
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It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.
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Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
