Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (Kenny G) Quotes
When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more.
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Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.
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Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'
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The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding manners. There are two sorts of ill-breeding: the one a sheepish bashfulness, and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
