Marian McPartland Quotes

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Marian McPartland

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Think
  • Intelligent
  • I Think

• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Up
  • Man

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • College
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Future
  • Change

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Art
  • Look
  • Prejudice

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Political

• I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Joy

• I don't know what in the hell's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman is for cranberries is doing a great job. He's showing up everywhere. Hey, what do you got, some apples? Put some cranberries in there. We'll call it cran-apple and go 50-50. What do you got grapes? How about cran-grape. What do you got mangos? Cran-mango. What do you got pork chops? Cran-chops. Why don't you back off, cran-man. Why don't you take your sales trophy and have a vacation.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Hell
  • Vacation
  • Apples

• Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

  

  James Salter
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Words

• I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Night

• Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

  

  Marian McPartland
  • Writing