Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes

My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

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Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.

Amy Purdy

TimeMindMeThoughtPhoneKind

I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing. Boxing was a way of expressing myself because I was not that outspoken.

Sugar Ray Leonard

MyselfMeConnectionBoxingWay

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

Masanobu Fukuoka

SimpleSmallUniverseFarmTrueOur

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Roy Blount, Jr.

MindHumanHuman MindMostSome

Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know?

Jonathan Ames

FreeFeelEasyWorthYouKnow

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.

Jonathan Hickman

ArtLongYouReadyGoNice

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

Donna Tartt

StyleGoHandStorytellingElegant

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.

Bonnie Bassler

SmallYouFindNeverInvisibleSee

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

Peter Mullan

LoveDayJobEnd Of The DayEndYou

I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes.

Scott Adkins

MyselfSometimesMakeFilms

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.

Tim Murphy

AmericaOilTwoOverAbilityLast

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

Mark Haddon

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