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The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself. ↗

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.' ↗

— Count Basie

#announce #basie #beware #biggest #business

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. ↗

— Count Basie

#definite #fast #had #i #jazz

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#along #every #every time #feel #follow

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#been #hard #i #i think #much

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#called #commercial #course #design #did

Believe it or not, I can actually draw. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#believe #draw #i #i can

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#been #ceiling #changes #debt #debt ceiling

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. ↗