Jimi Jamison Quotes
I pretty much wait for inspiration, then sit down at the piano or with the guitar. If I come up with something pretty cool, I put it on tape. If not, I just put the guitar down. I know these Nashville guys have a time each day they write, like a job. But I don't want a job! I like being a bum! My mother still asks me: "When are you gonna get a job?"
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A novel is not a rant.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.
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One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
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Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
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There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
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I pretty much wait for inspiration, then sit down at the piano or with the guitar. If I come up with something pretty cool, I put it on tape. If not, I just put the guitar down. I know these Nashville guys have a time each day they write, like a job. But I don't want a job! I like being a bum! My mother still asks me: "When are you gonna get a job?"
