"At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted."

-- Jon Lovitz

#People Quotes #Like You Quotes #Fame Quotes

“As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.”
“I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.”
“Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.”
“The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party...”
“I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.”
“I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.”
“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.”
“I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.”

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