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"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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Personal Development

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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Personal Development

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."
Life

"I love playing to people and seeing them react."
Love

"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
Father

"My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by."
Music

"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way."
Holiday

"I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way."
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"Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances."
Music

"It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status."
Work

"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
Experience
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