Tape Quotes - Page 15

• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  Daley Thompson

  Lying

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• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  Andrew Vachss

  Running, Narrators, Surveillance

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• If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

  Todd Barry

  Brother, Party, Nuts

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• Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

  Steven A. Cohen

  Art, Reading, Today

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• After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

  Dana Carvey

  Winter, Years, Voice

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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• It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

  Herb Alpert

  Numbers, Musical, Sound

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• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  Patrick Carney

  Kids, Eye, Feet

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• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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• I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.

  Arthur Darvill

  Home, America, Sitting

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

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• The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

  Geoff Davis

  Jobs, Creating, Red

  "As Economy Limps Along, Obama Touts Efforts Ahead of Crucial Midterm Elections". www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2010.

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• I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

  Katie Finneran

  Wall, People, Cameras

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• So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

  Luc Ferrari

  Spring, Piano, Sound

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• When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

  Sherman Alexie

  Song, Firsts, Constructs

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• I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

  Idris Elba

  Thinking, Government, Cities

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• If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

  Simon Cowell

  Air, Hours, Ends

  Playboy Interview, February 2007.

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• No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

  Al Yankovic

  Track, Car, Musical

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• We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

  Billy Joel

  Doors, Musical, Hash

  Song: Goodnight Saigon, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

  Jackie Cooper

  Mistake, Long, Acting

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• I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Kids, Player

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy for the little trailer you're going to do, you'll come out and show it to us and we set you up to go edit it." I turned it on and it was just this hardcore film and I was like, "Oh my God, I've fallen down the rabbit hole."

  Julie Davis

  Writing, Office, Rabbits

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

  Amanda Hocking

  Mom, Grandma, Talking

  "A Self-Published Author's $2 Million Cinderella Story". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 8, 2012.

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• We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

  Kay Hagan

  Jobs, Government, Needs

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

  David Johansen

  Men, Voice, Sometimes

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• During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

  Ken Jennings

  Flying, Secret, Trying

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