"I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me."

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Source : "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.

#Teacher Quotes #College Quotes #Singing Quotes

“Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.”
“The whole cap came off.. must've been a recap.”
“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”
“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”
“The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.”

Source : M. J. Rose (2016). “The Witch of Painted Sorrows: A Novel”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”
“There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.”
“I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.”

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