Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes
I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.
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Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
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I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.
