"That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it."

-- Marian McPartland

#Fall Quotes #Play Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.”
“People like to see what you're doing and feel involved. Everyone craves that whole behind-the-scenes side of things. I think it's important to keep people involved with what you're doing and to shed a little light on what goes into the end result. There's pressure, but you have to keep it real. People forget that Instagram is there for fun and I try not to lose sight of that. It's not as serious as everyone thinks it is.”
“It's fear that makes a situation dangerous.”

Source : Marilyn Wallace (1993). “So Shall You Reap”, Crimeline
“The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK
“Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show”
“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.”
“Be yourself. The happiest and most successful people are those who feel the most comfortable with themselves.”
“I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.”

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