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John Coltrane Quotes

I find it's only when something is trying to come through I really practice. And then, I don't know how many hours. It's all day.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967

Topics

Day Practice Trying Find Know Come

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

Time Fly Night Long Play Long Time

I style myself and choose what to wear based on what I feel good in it.

Good Style Myself Feel Good Choose

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

Change Amazing Me World Proud Black

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

Good People Think End Bad Want

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Moment Black You Find White Out

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

Movies Without Being Slick Sean

I pay less attention to my hair then probably anybody that I know. I get out of the shower, I towel dry it. I, like, blow it off and then I just run my hands through it and away we go. It's just what it is.

Hair Hands Attention Go Know Run

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

Family Business Child Me Mystery

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Business Book America Year Worth

I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Jonathan Glazer

Words Better Always Audience Through

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Leadership Failure Fishing People Me

Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.

Life Wife Travel Looking Back Bath

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