"Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?"

-- John Scofield

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“The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.”

Source : "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
“If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.”
“Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.”
“I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.”
“The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.”

Source : Source: business.highbeam.com
“It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.”

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