"I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real."

-- Ramsey Lewis

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
“Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.”
“We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.”
“I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.”
“When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.”

Source : "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.
“When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey.”
“The role of an actor is to make every character believable.”
“We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.”

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