Count Basie Quotes
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
Quotes to Explore
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
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I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
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If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
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I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
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Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.
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Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
