#desmond

We learn from history that we don't learn from history! ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#history #south-africa #africa

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on! ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#back #become #case #desmond #fall

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#clever #crazy #desmond #free #going

I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#been #desmond #done #feel #haven

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#desmond #i #life #my life #over

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#desmond #far #i #i love #instrumentalists

They were alike, and yet they were totally opposite in the way they viewed the world. He viewed it as it was. It was a dark place, always holding itself into the shadows. She saw the beauty that no one else could ever have seen in the darkness. It was to be said that she both saved and destroyed him. She was the essence of him and yet she, beautiful sad eyed angel that she was, was also his destruction all at the same time. He could be a downright wretch of a man, yet she took it into herself, and never said a word, but to love him. It was the love that broke him. ↗

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#love #beauty

Hold out what men have said. (Desmonde and Delilah backtracked) ↗

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#men