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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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 know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.
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I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.
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I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
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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.
