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

• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

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

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Me
  • Healthy

• 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

• Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • World
  • Way
  • Virtue

• So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

  

  Duncan Sheik
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Song

• The person who's writing and performing those songs wants to get to know the fans even more. Find out how close that song is to their real life, what it means to them. The earlier in the process that we can start connecting those artists with fans, the better.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• 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
  • Song
  • Way
  • Musicians