Tape Quotes - Page 14

• Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

  Olga Korbut

  Gymnastics, Life Is, Recorders

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• Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money.

  Peggy Noonan

  Humor, Men, Law

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

  Alistair Cooke

  War, Drama, Memorable

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, Arguing, Temper

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• A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, Prudent, Opinion

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• On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Doubt, Mind

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• International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• As a wedding gift, Ray J gave Kim Kardashian his profits from their sex tape. It's 'Something Old' as well as 'Something Blew.'

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Wedding, Sex

  Twitter post from May 25, 2014

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• And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

  Mitch Albom

  Suitcases, Stealing, Desperate

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• You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

  Jennifer Garner

  Fashion, Scotch, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.

  Matt Groening

  Brother, Father, Adventure

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• When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

  Dave Grohl

  Different, Way, Capture

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• Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Tools, Use

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• Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Imagine, Recorders, Knows

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Book, Smurf, Demographics

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• My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

  Penn Jillette

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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

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• Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

  Jay Leno

  War, Night, Evil

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• I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.

  Leona Lewis

  Dream, Night, Mind

  "Leona Lewis Has a Health Condition That Makes Her Scared of Balconies" by Lexi Petronis, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.

  Kellan Lutz

  Makeup, Hair, Suits You

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• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  Ian MacKaye

  Letters, Posters, Librarian

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• So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

  John Frusciante

  Ideas, Use, Records

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• Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Use, Truman

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• I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, School, Kids

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Watches, Hysterical

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• I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, My Husband

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