Ray Charles Quotes
Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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The country will not have to pay the piper. Through a combination of sound policy actions and a great deal of good luck we are well on our way to a soft landing and a period of growth and price stability.
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To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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No, Zoey." Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you." Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
