"A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book."

-- Tom Piazza

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“You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.”
“Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education,”
“Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind”

Source : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1976). “Creative meditation and multi-dimensional consciousness”, Quest Books
“People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.”
“I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.”
“I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.”
“Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.”

Source : Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

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