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Les Baxter Quotes

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 14, 1922 - January 15, 1996

Topics

Best Song Aim Will Way Possible

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell

Art Painting Mask Tradition Person

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

People I Can Know Will Try Sure

Chivalry is dead.

There'll be years of teething problems searching for alternatives to oil, but they have to be embraced with passion because our oil is finite, and we're running out. Fact.

Passion Problems Oil Searching Out

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.

Past Country Investment Citizen Need

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

I Am Week More Open Legislation Our

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

Job Think You Go Nap Dancing

Moving outside of your comfort zone is one thing I learned from my training as an actor in England.

Training Moving Comfort Zone Comfort

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

Car School Parents Present Parent

When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was the voice of God, the image of God. When I went to start making docs, I quickly turned the megaphone to my ear not to my mouth. It's more about funneling in the words and listening as doc filmmaker.

Derek Cianfrance

God Words Listening Start Voice

Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't.

God Mountain Picture Earth Insight

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

Wonder Important Why Heroes Started

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