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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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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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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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
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I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
