"I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt â€¦ she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him â€“ and it was true, due to Marilynâ€™s superstar status â€“ that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman â€“ a little ahead of her times. And she didnâ€™t know it."

-- Ella Fitzgerald

#Real Quotes #Night Quotes #Play Quotes

“Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.”

Source : Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz
“Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.”
“The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.”
“I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.”
“The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I can't do this because I can't...I can't be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this - this just becomes...another reminder of what I am not.”
“Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.”
“No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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