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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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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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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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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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.
