Cassandra Wilson Quotes
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
