Cassandra Wilson Quotes

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

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• I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • History

• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Find
  • Cooking

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Control

• Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.

  

  Gary Peters
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Want
  • Give
  • Back

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • American
  • America

• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Great
  • City

• Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

  

  Lorde
  • Fun
  • Amazing
  • Animal

• I think in general, doing The X-Factor with the Steve Aoki song was the most difficult time, but also weirdly the most rewarding as well. I definitely felt like I couldn't do it, and then I definitely felt the support from everyone around me, the friends and family but also the fans and people outside of that.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Way
  • Opinions

• I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• Republican House members, including Tom Price, when he was still in the Republican House, sued HHS, suggesting that payment to insurance companies for cost-sharing exceeded the authority of HHS. That case was basically withdrawn when President Trump was elected, in hopes that the Affordable Care Act would be repealed - but we're back to the law.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • House
  • Law
  • Trump

• Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
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