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 don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.
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As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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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.
