"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

“In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.”

“I want my chirfugging goose back!”

“I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.”

“Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.”

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“Great ideas are not charitable.”

Source : Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf

“If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.”

“When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.”