"Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance."

-- John Zorn

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“Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.”
“We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.”

Source : "They think it's all overpaid: Gary Lineker blasts footballers' big wages". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2012.
“Bed and Breakfasts are really, really hard to run. You're the first one up and the last one to go to bed. You know, it really tested our strength. We became stronger from it - the whole experience from, you know, learning about it, sort of investing wise - money-wise, business-wise and then just pushing yourself. You know, it takes a lot of work to run a Bed and Breakfast. And then with a brand new baby, it triples.”

Source : "Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott Talk Reality in Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 17, 2008.
“I'm allergic to money, because the choices that I make usually concern the people and the project itself, rather than the financial gain that is projected. I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.”
“Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.”
“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.”
“I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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