Jan Hammer Quotes

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

Jan Hammer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: April 17, 1948

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I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Joe Dante

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You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Jessamyn West

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Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.

Andrew Sean Greer

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I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

Anna Friel

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Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Anna Paquin

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Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

Sid Fleischman

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I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

Steven Seagal

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Anything can go wrong, but you can't think about it all the time. You have to enjoy every moment.

JoJo Siwa

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When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me.

Diana Rigg

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Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There's usually something good on TV like 'Mr Selfridge' or 'Downton Abbey,' so I'll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!

Donna Air

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