"I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here."

-- Miroslav Vitous

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“If you can build it, you can unbuild it”
“A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.”
“But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.”

Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
“Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.”

Source : "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter V: "An Approach to Style", 1918.
“You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.”
“At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my studio by myself since 1968 on up. And the thing is that my social life consisted of being involved in organizations like that. I would get people to come and speak, and speak myself and that kind of stuff.”
“Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.”
“Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.”

Source : "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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