#us

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#become #career #courage #energy #had

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there. ↗

— GG Allin

#cause #even #had #heard #i

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues. ↗

— Luther Allison

#beautiful place #because #big #blues #i

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #because #before #capacity #disappears

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. ↗

— Mose Allison

#any #couple #duke #duke ellington #ellington

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me. ↗

— Mose Allison

#boogie #effect #era #favorites #had

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so. ↗

— Mose Allison

#certain #comin #fortunately #i #least

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me. ↗

— Mose Allison

#been #consecutive #good #i #many

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. ↗

— Mose Allison

#classical #classical composers #composers #different #doin

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#any #court #eliminate #fought #legislatures