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Mary Lou Williams

"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

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"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

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Amber Hurdle

"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read."

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Amber Hurdle

"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

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Amber Hurdle

"More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy."

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Amber Hurdle

"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

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Amber Hurdle

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

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Amber Hurdle

"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."

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Amber Hurdle

"If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again."

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Amber Hurdle

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

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Mary Lou Williams
"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously."

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Mary Lou Williams
"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"

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Mary Lou Williams
"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room."

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Mary Lou Williams
"Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper."

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Mary Lou Williams
"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

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Mary Lou Williams
"Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night."

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Mary Lou Williams
"One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family."

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