"No, I don't like recording. It's a bore."

-- Buddy Rich

“I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.”
“Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.”
“I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.”

Source : Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.
“...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism. There is no more establishment, or middle or moderate wing. You've got the Steve King wing of the Republican Party today, who raised the specter of impeachment this weekend.”
“Women fake ***** and men fake finances.”
“I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay.”

Source : "Side Benefit of Prop 8’s Passage: Celebrities Busting Out of Closet" by Party Ben, www.motherjones.com. November 16, 2008.
“I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.”

Source : Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo

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