Ahmad Jamal Quotes

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Ahmad Jamal

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Everyone romanticizes somebody.

Zooey Deschanel
- Everyone
- Somebody
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

Kaskade
- Music
- Home
- House
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

Parker Posey
- People
- Heart
- Think
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

Yoko Ono
- Work
- Money
- Way
Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

Owain Yeoman
- Ideas
- Enemy
- Try
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

Iain Banks
- People
- Long
- Book