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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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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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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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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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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I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with jackets and scarves. Anybody who gets his clothes at All Saints, that's my guy.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.
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I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious attraction for me for during the time I was there.
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It's very demanding to make up your own music.
