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Marian McPartland Quotes

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

Marian McPartland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: March 21, 1918

Topics

Friend Me Doing Week Long Way

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

Family Queen Voice Language American

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Andy Stern

Strength Structure Own Workers Share

There have been many, many paintings of Theseus and the Minotaur, as it is one of the more popular myths, so how could I make mine different and new? I decided it would be best to make the most dynamic painting I could. I wanted to capture the moment right before the Minotaur's horn was snapped.

John Rocco

Moment Best Painting New Capture

L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

America Momentum Hustle Sense About

Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.

Tom Chatfield

Past World Years Within Literacy

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

School New York Basketball New High

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

Janice Dickinson

Celebrity Everything Make-Up Hawking

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

Chris Abani

Research Writing Find Need Wonderful

I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!

Brian Kilmeade

Start Foundation Talking You Stop

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

Bryan Ferry

Mistake Looking Back Looking Think

You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They've got this thing wired. Too often, we live within their games, so why would you not study what works? Take away the bad stuff - because there's a lot - and use the savvy interesting stuff and figure out how they can apply. It's a good one for the ladies.

Ava DuVernay

Good Live Interesting You Bad White

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

Ashwin Sanghi

Name Help Person Who Writer Block