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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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Personal Development
"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."
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"You can never get enough of what you don't want."
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"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."
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"When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style."
Money
"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."
Talking
"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
Kids
"That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age."
Age
"They always want to sell me as a hard bopper."
Want
"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."
Drink
"I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back."
Time
"Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to."
Play
"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
Art
"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."
Music
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