Pat Metheny Quotes
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.
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I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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Most of my material is , it doesn't necessarily involve a lot of editing. So even the show with the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, I don't have to worry about some of the material being inappropriate.
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Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
