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Cassandra Wilson Quotes

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

Cassandra Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 4, 1955

Topics

Memory Night House Train Whistle

Any standup that you see who you go, 'Oh, wow, that guy's, you know, that guy's making it.' Inevitably, they've been doing it 10, 12 years - 10, 15 years. Because it takes time.

Time Doing You Go Know See

I'm not going to be a coach or a director - they are not roles that I would like.

Director Coach Going Would Like

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

Change Environment You Place Want

I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Time Moment Experience Death Think

People would say I looked like a man or something called a 'buttaface', which means everything good but her face, or 'potato head' was the big term that everyone used a lot, basically making fun of the way I looked.

Good Man Fun People Face Say

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

Life Story Grind Go First Whole

My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.

Debbie Reynolds

Woman Said Passionate Same Very

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

Bird Walk Fun Preparation Me Always

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

Work Go Head Complete Activity Ever

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

Discipline Training Living Hard Make

If your story is being told by someone who doesn't really know it, it's not going to come out accurate. A lot of it has to do with context. Whoever's behind the camera or pen or whatever.

Story Someone Camera Pen Know Out

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

You Watching Danger Documentary

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