Artie Shaw Quotes
You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
