"Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done."

-- Sarah Dessen

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“Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.”
“Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.”
“Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear... Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.”
“Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.”
“I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
“I would like immortality.”
“The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.”
“All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.”

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