"I was just born to swing, that's all."

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Lil Hardin Armstrong

#Women Quotes #Swings Quotes #Born Quotes

“I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.”
“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
“God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.”
“The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.”
“Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.”
“I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world.Â They know phony and they know real.'”
“Confidence is essential, but ego is not.”

Source : "Sam Mendes’s 25 Rules for Directors". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. March 11, 2014.
“Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.”

Source : George Croly (1830). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly”, p.209

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