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Billie Holiday

"People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."

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"People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

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"A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted."
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"Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way."
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"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."
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