Cassandra Wilson Quotes
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Music industry is so fickle, there's so many politics. I think a lot of people don't pay attention to the credits or the artistry no more. I think there's so much concern about what's going on right now instead of the actual artistry. But that's how the record business is, but for acting, I got that covered.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
