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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: australian
Birth: October 16, 1962

Topics

Jazz Old Years Up Trumpet Playing

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

Sure Spell Could

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

History Next Joke Room Divine Poet

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

Good Story Think You Down I Can

I'm getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I'm much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn't have anything to do with a conversation about the world.

Anna D. Shapiro

Work Myself Youth World Problems

I - look, I, you know, I find Donald Trump completely un-presidential, unacceptable. I don't like his methods. I don't think he's got any policies.

Think You Look Find Donald Trump He

My faith is a huge part of my life. I don't force it into my music, but it's in my experiences, so it comes through. People pick up on what they want to pick up on, but any way strangers connect to a song that I wrote is awesome.

Life Music Faith People Song Want

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Strength Think Care Weakness Write

If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures.

Mitch McConnell

Everyone Get Behind Idea Obamacare

I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on.

Mitch McConnell

Hope People Win End Remember You

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

Jonathan Krisel

Time Reality Try Everything Bring

A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right vocal cords - brilliantly and shatteringly conveyed.

More Never Right Poem Than Vocal

Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

Donald E. Westlake

Space Sorry Advice Just Do It Left

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