David Sanborn Quotes

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

David Sanborn

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'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there.

Stanley Kubrick

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I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don't play well are what drive me the most.

Tom Lehman

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All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.

Michael Specter

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The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

Michelle Rodriguez

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I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Lois Lowry

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There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

Joyce Maynard

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I don't attend film parties; I am anti-social. I don't drink, also. Because I don't go out, I don't know what's happening gossip-wise.

Disha Patani

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The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Donald E. Graham

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Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Christopher Hitchens

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I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

Brandon Lee

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