Pat Metheny Quotes
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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I actually run a nonprofit that's all about giving people opportunities to be their own heroes and do their own work.
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The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!'
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
