"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

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Source : Quoted in N Hentoff Jazz Is (1978).

Dizzy Gillespie

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“On the last day of every character I've ever played, I lay the clothes out on the floor with the shoes and socks, so that it looks like the character has literally vanished. That's the way you have to leave them.”

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“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.”
“I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.”
“I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.”
“I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.”

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“You have to have a business model you believe in and like.”

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“People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.”
“In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.”

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