I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.
You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.
I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.
There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don't even come close; but it's the perception that creates the most conflict every time.
