"In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Christian Scott

“I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.”
“Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.”
“You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.”
“I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.”

Source : "Girl Crush Alert: How Sophia Bush Is Using Her Voice to Make a Difference" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 15, 2013.
“When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.”
“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”

Source : Frances Perkins (2011). “The Roosevelt I Knew”, p.104, Penguin
“In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.”

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