Artie Shaw Quotes
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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You just want the highs to start once the playoffs start.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap.
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I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly.
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There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
