Mahalia Jackson Quotes
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
