Mary Lou Williams Quotes
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
Mary Lou Williams
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
Irina Shayk
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
Banks
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
Dana Carvey
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot
I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
Olivia Cooke
You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
Yelawolf
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
A. Philip Randolph
I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
Vijay Sethupathi
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
After over 50 years of headlining, I've been received very beautifully. But I always say, when you're onstage, you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's OK.
Don Rickles
