Pat Metheny Quotes
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I don't feel closeted.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.
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I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.
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People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
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One of the challenges of innovation is challenging a set model. A traditional way to manufacture footwear existed for hundreds of years. Now we have a whole new way.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
