Branford Marsalis Quotes
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
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We are what we believe we are.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
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When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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Words were not things you could control. Not always.
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
