Lee Konitz Quotes
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.
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I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
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I love playing characters that have secrets.
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The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
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It's very demanding to make up your own music.
