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"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
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"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"
"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."
"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
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