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Andra Day Quotes

That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 30, 1984

Topics

Queen Control Song Loved Blues Jazz

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Light Painting Sadness Feel I Feel

I'm someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.

Someone Discrimination Us Who Very

I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.

Me Camera You True Boring Nothing

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman

Speech Banana Peel Parts Adjective

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

I Am Team Better Racing Train Shape

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

Contract British Teaching Appointment

The thing that I'm known for - at least, depending on what Subreddit you go to - is being a comedian. And so, even when talking about heavy things, I still want to try to use humor to walk us in the door.

Humor Walk Door Talking You Want

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

Day Thought Trying Storytelling She

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.

Hope Memories People Me Legacy End

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

Truth I Am More Difficult Deal Been

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

Experience Believe Advice Worth Come

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Life Courage Man Child Face You

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