Sonny Rollins Quotes

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Sonny Rollins

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I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

Angela Robinson

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I get along with people very easily.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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Metta World brings championship mentality. That's it. One thing. That's what I do.

Metta World Peace

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The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.

John Scofield

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The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.

Steve Howey

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When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Sofia Vergara

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The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

Simon Kuznets

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My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

Tony Parsons

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There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Mitchell Hurwitz

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Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

Judy Sheindlin

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Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

Diana Gabaldon

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The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.

Doug Liman

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