Notes Quotes - Page 11

• I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Letters, Written Word, Written

  "Sandra Bullock Talks The Lake House". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. June 13, 2006.

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• Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

  Mick Jagger

  Country, Roots, Way

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• I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholson when I'd barely made a dime as an actor. It really kept me going.

  Kurt Fuller

  Real, California, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Mean, Home

  "Gore Vidal, Novelist of U.S. Past Sees an Empire Replacing Republic He So Admired". Interview with Robert Scheer, www.latimes.com. December 15, 1991.

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• I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

  Solange Knowles

  Letting Go, Perfect, Best Of The Best

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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• So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.

  Solange Knowles

  Taken, Wow, Shows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

  Christopher Moore

  Song, Writing, Play

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  Dan Ariely

  Cheating, People, Cash

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• I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

  Kami Garcia

  Moving, Inspiration, Important

  "Interview: Kami Garcia, 'Unbreakable'". Interview with Jessie Potts, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 1, 2013.

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• I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

  Alan Green

  Attention, Pay, Share

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• I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

  Sue Miller

  Grandmother, Thinking, Diaries

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• Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Book, Son, Doctors

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• "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Teaching, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

  Judith Guest

  Writing, Space, Brain

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• Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
  For one another, though dissimilar?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Piano, Notes Music

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.493, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

  Burton Cummings

  Car, Singing, Trying

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

  Louis Malle

  Keys, Stories, Elbows

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• Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Silence, Important, Silence Is

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• The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

  Glenn Gould

  Past, Planes, Horizontal

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• Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

  Tommy Chong

  Hitting, Comedy, Jazz

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

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• I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Forget Everything, Pieces, Paper

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• My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony

  Writing, Boss, Best Experiences

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• Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

  Rae Armantrout

  Lying, Book, Talking

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