"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."

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Source : 1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

Duke Ellington

#Music Quotes #Mean Quotes #Swings Quotes

“I think there was a petition online to get me involved in Doctor Who. Im not a Doctor Who fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.”
“I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals”
“The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughterâ€”where once stood two women closer than sistersâ€”now stood two strangers.”
“Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.”

Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.17, Penguin
“God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.”
“When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.”
“I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.”

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