Cassandra Wilson Quotes
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
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I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.
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I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
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From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
