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Tony Wilson Quotes

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: February 20, 1950 - August 10, 2007

Topics

Listening Musicians Enjoy Jazz More

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Change Time Night Remember You Try

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

Great Travel Youth Moving Think Out

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

Women Men Me Luck Find Ability

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Love Challenge Problems Try Pure

My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

Music Community Theatre Acting Young

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

Socks Always Shoot Photo Shoot Steal

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.

Aneurin Barnard

Work Character Truth People Me Key

I eat really clean and really simple: brown rice, a quinoa bowl, grilled fish, veggies, a big salad.

Simple Fish Salad Clean Eat Rice

I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.

Gift Person Buy Hardest

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them.

Jordan Peterson

Time Me Look I Can Know Kind

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Good Job Balance King Good Things

Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food.

Good Food Young Others She Old

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