"You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque."

-- Martha Wainwright

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“Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.”
“People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.”
“Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.”
“Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.”

Source : New Statesman and Society interview, 1990.
“One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.”

Source : Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.104, Springer Science & Business Media
“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
“Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe”
“I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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