"My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela."

-- Nina Simone

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“Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.”
“Letâ€™s talk.â€ I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required.”
“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.”

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“No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend”
“No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion”
“I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.”
“These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.”
“Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.”

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