Corey Johnson Quotes
When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm a composer, man.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.
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It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.
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The first perk of theater is the girls.
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The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
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When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'
