"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."

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Source : FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013

Etta James

#Mother Quotes #Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!”
“... governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ...”
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

Source : Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press
“It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.”

Source : John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.14, Northwestern University Press
“When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.”
“Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of the conversations I'm pushing about different threads and themes around landscape and characters that exist - how it's pictured, who's pictured it, who's owned it and who's been able to inhabit certain spaces. I have other interests as well. I'm really obsessed now with going to gay male dance clubs. I find those thrilling. I'm interested in what future characters can come.”
“I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.”
“The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.”

Source : "Unauthorized, But Not Untrue" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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