Session Quotes - Page 15

My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, yes, sometimes a song takes place in one session - together in one day.

Richard Sherman

Song, Brother, Writing

"Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

Adam Hochschild

Determination, Years, Two

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Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

Daniel Webster

Men, Political, Kitchen

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The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

Bobby Keys

Stones, Firsts, Hallways

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Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session).

David Livermore

Team, Ideas, Creating

Source: bobmorris.biz

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But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

Donovan McNabb

Team, Focus, Needs

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That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

Elvis Presley

Hate, Jam, Lasts

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Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

Tony Levin

Focus, Awkward, Done

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Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

Tom Clancy

Reading, Sunday, Lessons To Be Learned

Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.41, Penguin

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Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

Tony Visconti

Jobs, Directors, Records

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Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

Stephen King

Dream, Morning, Writing

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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Barry Mann

Writing, Brave, Firsts

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And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

Joan Baez

Struggle, Fighting, Voice

"Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.

Rick Santorum

Bills, Months, Republican

"Santorum's Health Care Stall Tactic: 'Offer Literally Thousands of Amendments' to Keep Senate in Session for Months". www.mediamatters.org. February 27, 2010.

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My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

Rick Wakeman

Travel, Adventure, Player

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Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.

Hari

Love, Friendship, Golf

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Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

Marlin K. Jensen

Prayer, Home, Sunday

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I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

Joe Pantoliano

Dog, Children, Cat

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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that’s maybe what helped me to get the part.

Olivier Martinez

Real, Opposites, Directors

"New Again: Olivier Martinez". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2012.

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Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

Betsy McCaughey

Years, People, Counseling

'The Rachel Maddow Show' with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. July 29, 2009.

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Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.

Norman Grubb

Prayer, Believe, Adventure

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In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the stories of tired tradition and galvanizes them, setting them to dance for us in wonderful, new interpretations.

Cat Rambo

Tired, Intelligent, Stories

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I was curious because I hadn't really known anyone to do just that, so I would stop in on his sessions with his rapper friends, and then one day, I told Astro Raw "I'm looking to sing. He told me to try it out and then we made 'Treat Me Like Fire' and everything started."

Jillian Hervey

Rapper, Fire, Trying

Source: www.marieclaire.com

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I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.

John Baldessari

Couple, Teaching, Thinking

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This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement.

Chris Larson

Retirement, Rights, Decision

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