"I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very rarely listen to my music or even read things that I might've said."

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Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#Focus Quotes #Video Quotes #Looks Quotes

“For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.”
“It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.”
“I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.”
“A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.”

Source : John D MacDonald (2013). “The Deep Blue Goodbye: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.61, Random House
“You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything”
“Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.”
“Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.”
“Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org

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