"Oscar Peterson is my favorite all-around pianist. There are pianists I like because of one thing and pianists I like because of another. But overall, I like Oscar Peterson best."

-- Carmen McRae

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“I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.”

Source : "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.
“IMDB is ridiculous... First of all, they had me down as my height being 5ft 7ins. I'm 5ft 10ins. But now they've got me down as 6ft 1ins and three quarters. They also have me down as doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I wish they had me down as doing Francis Ford Coppola's next film. That would be a great rumour.”
“You've got to realize the world will never be the same.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Carle, April 11, 2012.
“Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.”
“A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.”
“It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.”
“Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.5, Northwestern University Press

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