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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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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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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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 wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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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.
