Alma Gluck Quotes
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.
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Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.
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My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
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Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.
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The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
