My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.


Etta James

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THEO JAMES
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN
Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of whic...
JAMES BLACK
'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ...
JAMES HORNER
I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe...
LILY JAMES
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON
As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET
When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON
Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON
And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin...
JAMES MADISON
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL