"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now."

-- Wynton Marsalis

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”
“Problems can only exist if they have your attention.”
“I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.”

Source : "One last thing... Sam Trammell". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2011.
“Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.”
“Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.”
“You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.”
“Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that Iâ€™ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe Iâ€™m creating my own life. I distrust any memories I do have. They may be fictions, too.”

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