Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
It was good that Jim put this in writing, ... It puts Tony's mind at ease and certainly mine as well.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.
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My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.
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It was good that Jim put this in writing, ... It puts Tony's mind at ease and certainly mine as well.
