Lee Konitz Quotes

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

Lee Konitz

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CarNightHotelTrainEuropeDays

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

Jo Brand

GoodPeopleThoughtActorNeverLot

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

Jesse Kellerman

GoodWritingStartSpeechNeverOut

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant.

Jennifer Ellison

GotWeightBeforePregnantPutBit

I get invited to a thousand parties, but do I show up at them? No, I don't.

Andre Braugher

UpShowGetThousandInvitedThem

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

Megan Nicole

FunStoryNothingAlwaysOwnYour

They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good.

Angie Stone

GoodWomanTreatLearnBackAlways

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Tom Conti

MenRestYouLookLooksMovies

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

Ruben Blades

WrongProductAcceptRightConsensus

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

Julia Quinn

MeSomeoneTryingBadBad BoyNice

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

Jonathan Zittrain

WaySoftwareWriteiPhoneBeing

Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.

Dickey Betts

HellSometimesOutGetProportion

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

Derek Walcott

ThinkNostalgiaKindCynicismGone

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