"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."

-- Sonny Rollins

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“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”
“The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.”
“To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. Every human learns one day or another to become softer. Some accidentally, some because of disease, some suffer from human loss, some other from material loss ... We all face these situations, but we can either see the good in it and open our hearts, or unfortunately see an another occasion to lock it forever.”
“I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.”
“RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.”

Source : Ben Marcus (2013). “The Age of Wire and String”, p.92, Granta Books
“Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!”
“When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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