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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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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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.
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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.'
