Cecil Taylor Quotes

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

Cecil Taylor

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It's ridiculous that Claire Foy got paid less than Matt Smith on 'The Crown.' That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Jessie Buckley

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Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

Melissa McCarthy

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If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

John Mayer

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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

Angela Duckworth

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There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.

Jeff Buckley

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'

Jay Ellis

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Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.

Deborah Moggach

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We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Anton Yelchin

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This is the age of disruption.

Sebastian Thrun

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I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food.

Lidia Bastianich

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