Notes Quotes - Page 24

• I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Writing, Trying, Happens

  Source: collider.com

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• I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Strong, Sex, Media

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

  AraabMuzik

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Every note has to come out clean.

  Carol Kaye

  Clean

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• When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss.

  Veronica Webb

  Loss, Army, Salvation

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• What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

  Lake Bell

  Writing, Comedy, Tricks

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• Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat, Breathing, Fur

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• Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

  Roger Schank

  School, People, Want

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• It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.

  Tony Snow

  Pain, Careers, Special

  "Now, the Theophobes", www.foxnews.com. December 8, 2004.

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• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  Quincy Jones

  Thinking, Voice, Symphony

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• It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

  Charlie Parker

  Clean

  Mark Voelpel, Charlie Parker (2001). “Charlie Parker for Guitar (Songbook): Note-for-Note Transcriptions and Detailed Performance Notes for 18 Bebop Classics”, p.10, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I choose such notes that love one another.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Love One Another

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• "Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and
  actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.

  Dan Gillmor

  Teacher, Brother, Attitude

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• There is nothing to be done. Just make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind.

  Janet Finch

  Tattoo, Mind, Tears

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• Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Encouragement, Small Acts, Telephones

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• When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

  Joel Stein

  Wine, Rose, Taste

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• Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Promise, Excellent, Fulfillment

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.383, Modern Library

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• The best way to apologize is to let the customer vent first. Don't interrupt, just take notes and make empathetic noises. You can even tell the customer that it makes you mad too. Second, ask the customer what their speed of need is. Tell them what they ant to hear. That you apologize, that you understand how they feel, that you are meeting with the appropriate people to get a resolve, and that it will be done in 24-hours.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Mad, Needs

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• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

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• In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts is his quality as a human being. For music is created by Man for Man. And if someone sees nothing more than notes in it, this can perhaps be very interesting, but it cannot enrich him. And music should exist for one purpose only; to enrich Man and give him something he has lost in most respects.

  Herbert von Karajan

  Men, Giving, Interesting

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• We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

  Seth Godin

  Emotional, Play, Risk

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• Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Love Of My Life, Watches

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• As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ordinary, Citizens, Development

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• Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Thinking, Joy

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