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Jerry Leiber Quotes

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 25, 1933 - August 22, 2011

Topics

Black Born Streets Where Coal Songs

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.

Moment Discipline Day Lie Sleep Win

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

Character Bad Cannot Movie Bad Movie

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.

Hotel Security Looks Office Room

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

Moving Direction Right Administration

I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.

Stellan Skarsgard

Life Good Fear Performance Camera

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Art Me Deep New Study Impression

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Business Politics Hell You Opening

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Rudyard Kipling

City Desire Chicago Never Real See

Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

Michelle Bachelet

Life Family Nature Memory Present

I'm happy to be called a liberal.

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

Jonathan Raymond

Work Job Writing Back Done Try

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

Jonathan Tropper

Movies Kind Hand Try Write Pretty

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