Marian McPartland Quotes

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Grow

• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Questions

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Business
  • Giving

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Sweet
  • Meal
  • Nashville

• When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.

  

  P. D. James
  • Home

• Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • History
  • Past
  • Simple

• Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • May

• I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Life

• You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • World
  • Pretty

• You can't be perfect at everything.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Perfect

• So many different countries have got their version of what Merlin is: the Scottish say he Scottish, the Welsh say he's Welsh, the French say he's French.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Different

• I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Light
  • Football

• It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Money
  • High
  • Guy

• The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Men
  • Long

• Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

  

  Rumi
  • Tears
  • Laughter
  • Ruins

• Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end, and we knew it was going to be the end, and sometimes it's just better if a comedy show ends and goes away and they never had a series finale.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes

• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Moment

• I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

  

  Marian McPartland