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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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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And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
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It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.
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If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.
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I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.
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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
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I grew up in a small town where we played around on motorcycles and things, but it really started when I got old enough. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
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By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.
