Cecil Taylor Quotes

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

Cecil Taylor

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MotherMePlayPianoBeingFingers

Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.

Andrew Marr

LightJudgeFriendsHelpJudgesNor

I think we've connected with our fan base on more than just a rock n' roll level. We really do care about our fans who come out. We have love for people, and we're just trying to spread that good message.

Sonny Sandoval

LoveGoodPeopleThinkCareTrying

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

Tom Carper

MePersonalInspirationAlwaysBeen

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.

Ruben Blades

CommunicationMusicThinkPolitical

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Josiah Stamp

BornSinBankingConceivedIniquity

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

Jason Blum

LoveTimeHateNew ThingsProudYou

Honestly, I sleep best wearing nothing. But with kids, I've learned to sleep with underwear very close by, if not wrapped around one of my feet, so I'm ready to go if something happens.

Dierks Bentley

BestSleepFeetReadyGoNothing

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Diablo Cody

WinterTelevisionHollywoodHereFew

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

Dee Rees

WaterPeopleComplacencyHousing

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

Donald Pleasence

HeroNowRightPartsAmPhysically

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Common

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The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

Chrystia Freeland

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