"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."

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Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

Billie Holiday

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“We all can dance when we find music that we love.”

Source : "Giraffes Can't Dance". Book by Giles Andreae, September 1, 2001.
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”

Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.
“There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.”

Source : William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin
“We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Without hesitation, each time, my answer was our standing with Hispanics and Latinos. We must do a better job of reaching out to these communities and demonstrate to them that our party is aligned with the aspirations Hispanics have for their families and for America.”

Source : "WTF Did We Just Do, Romney Advisor Kevin Madden?". Interview with Marin Cogan, www.gq.com. November 9, 2012.
“You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.”
“The earth is blue like an orange.”

Source : Paul Eluard (1988). “Selected Poems”, London : Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.”

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