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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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
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Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
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People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.
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I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.
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When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
