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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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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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
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And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.
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When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.
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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.
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I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
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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?
