Bela Fleck Quotes
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
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My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
