Allen Toussaint Quotes
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
Allen Toussaint
Quotes to Explore
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
Frances Mayes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
E. Stanley Jones
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
Carine Roitfeld
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I don't have business with any politicians.
Carlos Slim
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
Wallace Shawn
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
Larry David
