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Marian McPartland Quotes

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

Marian McPartland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: March 21, 1918

Topics

Good Think Hands You Look Down

I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.

Jeremih

Music Foundation Feel Outside See

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

John Waters

Parents City Me Think Thought Doing

I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.

Trey Parker

Kid Big Brown Fan Charlie Brown

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Trevor Nunn

Decision Hard Director Final Film

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Rita Rudner

Start You Basics First Position

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

Ron Cephas Jones

Character Truth Doing You Acting

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Michael Novak

Society Conscience Ground Here Proof

This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.

Michael Rosbash

World Try Going Make Somebody Buck

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

Louis Finkelstein

God Children People Parent Despair

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

Jarvis Cocker

Great People Ambition Growing Up You

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Good Man I Am Feelings Learned Am

America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

Cory Booker

People Rich America Enough Growing