"[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the things he told me he loved about my voice was how I used space-both in music and between my voice and the mike."

-- Helen Merrill

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“I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.”

Source : Interview with Mike Geffner, inspiredwordnyc.com.
“Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

Source : Sir William Temple (1720). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679”, p.305
“for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.”
“I had been writing professionally since 1988”
“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”
“Whenever Iâ€™m interested in something, I know the timingâ€™s off, because Iâ€™m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after Iâ€™m not interested any more.”
“And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.”

Source : Dennis Miller (1999). “Ranting Again”, Main Street Books

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