Ukulele Quotes - Page 3

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Childhood

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• Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Passion, Average, Play

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• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee and we had The Mountain Opry, where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  Rachel Boston

  Love, Heart, Guitar

  "5 Questions with Rachel Boston". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 19, 2013.

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• I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

  Preston Sturges

  Night, Directors, Shooting

  Preston Sturges, Sandy Sturges (1991). “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

  Tim O'Reilly

  World, Invention, Make Sense

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• The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Trying, Killing, Abolish

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• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Adults, Today, Firsts

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I started writing stories as a child.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Writing, Stories

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• I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

  Gene Wilder

  Love, Careers, Actresses

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• I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

  Eric Bogosian

  New York, Writing, School

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• I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Actresses

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

  Ernest Cline

  Cute, Girl, Lust

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House

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• My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

  John Bonham

  Nerves, Gigs, Fine

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• I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Piano, Bars

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• For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Writing, Thinker, Controversy

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• Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

  Richard Foreman

  Actors, Theater, Modus Operandi

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• It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Dream, Dad

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• When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

  Mike Lookinland

  College, Assistants, Film

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• When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

  Dario Argento

  Film, Five, Love Films

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• It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

  Jeff Ament

  Causes, Figuring It, Figures

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• Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

  Al Jourgensen

  Sick, Drug, Enjoy

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• I started doing improv my sophomore year.

  Rachel Dratch

  Years, Sophomore, Sophomore Year

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• When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

  Mark Harmon

  Tvs, Company, Apartment

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• The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

  Marvin Davis

  Three, Pieces

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• I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

  Zach Condon

  Trumpets, Equipment, Smallest

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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