"Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night."

-- Mary Lou Williams

#Party Quotes #Night Quotes #Play Quotes

“Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
“What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.”
“If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.”

Source : "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.
“"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know."”
“If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come â€” sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected â€” and it balances.”
“Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.”

Source : Martin Chemnitz (1979). “De Coena Domini”
“When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.”
“My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didnâ€™t have slots for those.”

Source : S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.60, Feiwel & Friends

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