Gerald Clayton Quotes

Some people say that if you do anything other than a straight-ahead groove, that it's not jazz. But that kind of labeling is wrong. Music is what it is; if it sounds good, it sounds good.

Gerald Clayton

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GoodMusicPeopleYouWrongJazz

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.

John Deacon

YouLightsGoKnowWayNeed

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

John Forsythe

StrengthLightHeroVillainYouTry

In 'Hope Never Dies', the fictional Obama and Biden go up against drug traffickers, outlaw bikers, and other seedy opponents. They're forced to use skills they didn't know they had. Or, to put it another way, unlike Jordan Peele's Obama, this Obama doesn't need an anger translator.

Andrew Shaffer

HopeAngerGoKnowSkillsWay

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

John Henrik Clarke

PeopleFeelRememberBackSaidWay

I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.

Michael Connelly

GoodDarknessPeopleGoReasonOut

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

Amy Tan

MotherMyselfMePersonForgive

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Steve Earle

SpiritualSystemOnlyBeforeEver

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Robin Hobb

BookThinkBackDownSaidNever

Making strong infrastructural reforms, particularly in the area of social security, that's not an appealing prospect for any country or for any political structure. But that's a reality.

Roberto Azevedo

StrongRealityPoliticalSecurity

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

FaithTodayYesterdayTellThings

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

Jonathan Pryce

LifeLiveFunRoadWalkingEnjoy

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

Deval Patrick

WorkPeopleLawyerBelieveViewYou

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