Ornette Coleman Quotes

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

Ornette Coleman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015

Topics

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As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

Jodie Whittaker

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Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

Melissa Leo

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I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

John Irving

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One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Tony Harrison

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Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

Tom DeLay

WarFaceImportantNothingTaxes

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Mary Karr

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I hate homemade sweaters.

Mo Rocca

HateSweatersHomemade

As Real Madrid is a team of stars, Bale would fit perfectly.

Luka Modric

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I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.

Lisa Jewell

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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

Judith Martin

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Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

Dom DeLuise

GreatManMeSongHouseWhite

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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