"The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing."

-- Eldar Djangirov

#People Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“What we're going for, in those humorous moments, is the absurdity of it all. The craziness of the night manager offering them an umbrella in the height of what is a horrible disaster was like, "What?!" That's Andy Greenfield, and he nailed the audition. He's the sweetest guy in the world, as is often the case with those guys, but on camera, he's so creepy that a lot of us kept saying, "You know, Andy, don't look at us like that anymore, okay? You're scaring us."”
“SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!”
“While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.”
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.”

Source : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press
“I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.”
“I never think of an actor as a model. A model wears what you tell them to wear, that's their job. An actor is different. It's important to work with the actor because in the end that's who the audience sees and that's the success that you need.”
“Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.”

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