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Diana Krall Quotes

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.

Diana Krall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 16, 1964

Topics

Me Restaurant Hometown Drummer Years

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Andre Previn

Talent Year You Settle Musically

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

Anna Chancellor

Job Never Obscure Got Four Tiny

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

Anjelica Huston

Men Fight Me Doing Enough Movies

What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

Amitava Kumar

Liar Moments Difference Between Some

I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.

Stacey Snider

Passion Career Forever Something Had

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

Skylar Astin

Myself People Think Seriously Take

During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers' rights.

Tom Perez

History Struggle Black Civil Rights

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

Ronnie Dunn

Work Business I Am Step Door You

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Mike Huckabee

Change Future Responsibility Better

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know.

Michael Vick

Family Dog People Crazy Think Grow

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

Miroslav Vitous

Knowledge Musicians Someone Young Us

There's always been incivility in politics.

Lois Frankel

Politics Always Been