"Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free."

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Mary Catherine Bateson

#Music Quotes #Time Flies Quotes #Support Quotes

“I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma.”
“I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in lifeâ€”though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”
“The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.”
“They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.”
“Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.”
“I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for. Real moments of connection with other actors.”

Source : "Q&A: Jessica Paré on the Mad Men Theories" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2013.
“The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.”
“But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.”

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