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  • Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.

    - Sir Noe«  l Peirce Coward
      Speech, Gallery First-Nighters' Club, sharing his advice to young actors. On other occasions he repeated it in the form'Just say your lines and don't trip over the furniture'.

  •    Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if theyare serious about this music† There is no valid motivation for it other than loveoutlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society.

    - Mike Zwerin
      LaTristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.

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