Count Basie Quotes
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
Quotes to Explore
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I will keep working hard!
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A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
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It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.
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Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to.
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I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.
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Eric Carter is a more raw, more emotional protagonist. He's a bit of an Everyman.
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I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
