Cassandra Wilson Quotes
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
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Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?
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playing Pictionary with his wife and some friends
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I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
