Havens Quotes
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I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.
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I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.
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If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
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I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
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Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
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Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.
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I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
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Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.
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I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.
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I haven't lost my head yet.
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If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
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There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
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I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
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I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting "Hardball".
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But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.
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Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.
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And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.
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I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.
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I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
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If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.
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There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
