Able Quotes
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If you're going to be called a musicianship, you have to be able to play.
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Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.
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Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.
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I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.
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Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
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With R-rated movie you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.
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Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
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I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.
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They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.
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The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.
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One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.
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That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
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I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.
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Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
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In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
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I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.
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As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.
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It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
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We must have the hope to be able to succeed.
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It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
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In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
