Lionel Hampton Quotes
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.Lionel Hampton
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
Gary Bettman -
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
Hal Sparks -
I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
Carine Roitfeld -
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
Kat Graham -
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
Uday Kotak -
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
Salman Rushdie -
Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
Gary Sherman -
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
Yami Gautam -
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
Campbell Scott -
I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
Tao Okamoto
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Kate Winslet -
We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.
Emmanuelle Beart -
Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.
Jimmy Iovine -
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
Lionel Hampton