In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor... view

By: Lee Ritenour

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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day... view

By: Fiona Apple

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I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work... view

By: Milo Ventimiglia

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The best scene is the last great scene I did... view

By: Rene Auberjonois

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top... view

By: Robert Browning

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Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity... view

By: Elsa Maxwell

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership... view

By: Andrea Dworkin

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Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation... view

By: Doc Severinsen

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I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was... view

By: Maria Callas

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies... view

By: Groucho Marx

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To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face... view

By: Liza Minelli

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My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor... view

By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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