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Kurt Elling Quotes

I want to be the jazz singer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 2, 1967

Topics

Want Jazz Singer Jazz Singer

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

Sports Pet Caring Me Crazy Night

'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was the acting. 'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Do The Right Thing School Doing Know

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

History Bible Social Riches Document

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Humble People Ambition Drive Look

My favorite job is the next one. It's such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.

Roger Craig Smith

Experience Job Direction Push Trying

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Believe Interesting You More Always

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.

Change Character Great Enjoy You

He had a face like a blessing.

Miguel de Cervantes

Blessing Face Like He Had

In the future, the Internet might become a 'brain net' where we send memories, feelings and sensations.

Future Memories Brain Internet Where

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'

School People College Lunch Thinking

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Seasons You Where Four Virginia

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

Life Live Experience Fun Thought

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