"The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer."

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Source : "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.

Phoebe Snow

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“The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.”
“The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of what the movie should be, but that is especially the case when the director is being replaced three weeks before principal photography. The challenge for me was to make sure that was my version of 'The Wolfman.' And I've done that. I think.”
“I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.”
“Short on glamour and long on tragedy.”

Source : Quentin James Reynolds (1963). “By Quentin Reynolds”
“Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.”
“It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.”
“The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.”
“We must think nationally about the [trails] system and act locally to link trails and make the system happen.”

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