Lester Bowie Quotes
Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense.
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Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
