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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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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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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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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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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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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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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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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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 like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
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Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
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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.
