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Jimmy Smith

"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."

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"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."

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"When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."

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"I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman."

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"I keep fit by running after my three boys all day."

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"Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys."

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"She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on."

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"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them."

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"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."

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"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."

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"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."

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"Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys."

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"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
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