Anderson East Quotes
We don't do lots of jamming on stage, but I think we have the attitude of exploring things and trying something new.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
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There's no recreating what Michael Jackson and Diana Ross did in 'The Wiz'. We're trying to figure out who these characters are in 2015. How would these times change their motives, change the things they would say and do?
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I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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We don't do lots of jamming on stage, but I think we have the attitude of exploring things and trying something new.
