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George Shearing

"We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year."

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Donna Grant

"Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back."

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Donna Grant

"We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here."

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Donna Grant

"I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months."

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Donna Grant

"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."

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Donna Grant

"And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'"

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Donna Grant

"It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down."

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Donna Grant

"I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with."

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Donna Grant

"For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another."

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Donna Grant

"You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!"

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Donna Grant

"Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections."

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George Shearing
"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

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George Shearing
"We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year."

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George Shearing
"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children."

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George Shearing
"I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation."

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George Shearing
"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing."

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George Shearing
"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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George Shearing
"My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits."

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George Shearing
"The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto."

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George Shearing
"I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time."

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George Shearing
"Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on."

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