"I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument."

-- Lester Bowie

#Mean Quotes #Musician Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.”
“I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power.”
“Few great men would have got past personnel.”
“India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.”
“Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when there isn't a crisis. That's why I think having regular meetings and conversation when there's no crisis, when you can build trust and a friendship and a relationship that allows for better dialogue and far more consequential deal-making can occur when a crisis does come up.”

Source : "Former Senate leaders: Here's how to make a deal" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.
“The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.”
“Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.”

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