Marian McPartland Quotes
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
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You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.
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I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.
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There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
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We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.
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Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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I'm not designed to interact with society.
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America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
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If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
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The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.
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I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
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Music... is... a core element of our species, an activity that paved the way for more complex behaviors such as language, large-scale cooperative undertakings, and the passing down of important information from one generation to the next.
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By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.
