Coleman Randolph Hawkins (Hawk) Quotes
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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I like risky stuff.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
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I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
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Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.
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'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'
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You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I look around me and I see it isn't so Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know 'Cause here I go again... I love you.
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There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it.1.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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p. 163 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
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I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
