"I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday."

-- Billie Holiday

#Holiday Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.”
“Itâ€™s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where theyâ€™re not quite telling each other the truth and theyâ€™re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.”
“George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. We gather here today and we call ourselves simply Americans.”
“In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.”
“And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice”
“Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you have a special gift you donâ€™t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.”
“I love the cancer spoon!”

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