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 learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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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.
