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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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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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.
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Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
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I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.
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If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
