Marian McPartland Quotes
I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.
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I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.
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Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
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My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
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I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.
