Al Jarreau Quotes
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'Al Jarreau
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
Dan Aykroyd -
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
Adam Hochschild -
Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
Wayne Rogers -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
Victor Cruz
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
Kate Christensen -
I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
Patrick Kane -
For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
Edith Widder -
I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
Imogen Poots -
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
Viggo Mortensen -
The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
Pam Ferris
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer -
Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
Sam Shepard -
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.
Brett Dennen -
There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't see my picture on the front.
Jimmy Carter -
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Charles de Lint -
Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.
Gail Collins -
Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
Paul Tsongas -
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'
Al Jarreau