Count Basie Quotes
I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I want to know why people are getting laughs. Why this joke works and why that one didn't work. It all comes back to helping me be a better WWE Superstar. So I love it.
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
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We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
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I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.
