"When I arrived in New York I was definitely the worst player in town! It was just a measure of how far I had to go. It took years, while I was at Juilliard I worked different weekends with different people."

-- Paul Bley

#New York Quotes #Weekend Quotes #Player Quotes

“Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.”
“The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely”
“What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.”
“I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.”
“And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.”

Source : Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.116, Penguin
“I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.”
“Despite all the unresolved deep-seated problems, the U.S. is still a country where it's less important where you come from than what you do. But after 18 years of living here, I still have a German passport, a soft spot for the avant-garde and constructivists, and a heavy accent.”

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