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 think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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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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A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
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Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
