"I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry."

-- Charlie Hunter

#Play Quotes #Fickle Quotes #World Quotes

“The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.”
“There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted”
“The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.”
“IÂ couldnâ€™t stand in front of any camera, and I couldnâ€™t go to places where there were a lot of people. I thought people would criticize me if I smiled, or even if I just stayed still.”
“The better to eat you with, my dear.”
“Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.”
“One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.”
“There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.”

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