Andre Previn Quotes
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
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I love playing with my dog and just sitting on the patio with people I don't get to see very often anymore. I'm a pretty simple gal.
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I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.
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I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
