"I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more."

-- Laura Z. Hobson

“What I do in my own time, is my business.”
“Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.”
“The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.”
“There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.”
“When I look in the mirror, what do I see? I see a strong, independent, working woman who is very much in love and very happy with the reflection in that mirror.”
“The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.”

Source : Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”
“The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.”
“All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates”

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