Branford Marsalis Quotes
If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match
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I think a woman can come into her power at any age.
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I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
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I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.
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If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
