Benny Cassette Quotes

For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.

Benny Cassette

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GreatTogetherMeFeelMusicians

I think any story line that involves a relationship is going to be interesting.

Melanie Scrofano

RelationshipStoryThinkInteresting

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

John Polanyi

DemocracyPlaceNationTakenAfter

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

Stacey D'Erasmo

DisciplineCoolEnoughNeverPunk

I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.

Stanley A. McChrystal

LeadershipFatherLieWiseBrave

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Shirley MacLaine

LifeChangeLateReadyWillAlways

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

Mike Lowry

GoodEverythingOutBigPlaying

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

Michael Tilson Thomas

WorkMusicTrustMeAmericanYear

Growing up, we had 30, 40, 50 people coming through the house some Thanksgivings. Sometimes there was a kids' table; other times, the plate was just sitting on your lap. You get in where you fit in at that house.

Michael Strahan

PeopleGrowing UpYouHouseTable

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

Lisa Marie Presley

StylePeriodAnyParticularAscribe

As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.

Jay Parini

DayChristianTryPrayOnceLeast

The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

David Shields

HatePeopleMePageWantTurn

There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?'

Armie Hammer

HandsNervousOkayTwoWithoutHold

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