"They may not want me here, but I'm determined to make friends, have fun, and show 'em how we do it back home. I'm the Axel Foley of the flugelhorn." ~DM
ROLE MODEL
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WHO ARE YOU
ON COMEBACKS
ADVICE TO SELF AT MIDLIFE
AMBITION
"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world,
and although ambitions are well worth having,
they are not to be cheaply won."
—Lucille Maud Montgomery
"You'd like to quantify me, Officer Starling.
You're so ambitious, aren't you?
Do you know what you look like to me,
with your good bag and your cheap shoes?
You look like a rube."
—Hannibal Lecter
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great."
—Mark Twain
THE OUTSIDER
The Outsider disregards standard conventions of form and structure. Her emotionally stark art, often ignored by the industry, media and general public, may nevertheless find strong support among discriminating connoisseurs and collectors. Gooble gobble, gooble gobble, we accept her, one of us.
FICKLE FAME
"My name had gone stale, and no matter how
progressive I got, it was my time to die."
—Joni Mitchell
"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame.
I've always known it was fickle."
—Marilyn Monroe
"Fame is a bee. It has a song. It has a sting.
Ah, too, it has a wing."
—Emily Dickinson
LOVE
"We love Nastassja Kinski. She's a gifted actress
and the most beautiful woman in film today."
—Francis Ford Coppola
"I love Billie Holiday. Her music is so soulful and sad.
It's the most beautiful thing I know."
—Nastassja Kinski
"Love? Don't threaten me with love, baby.
Let's just go walking in the rain."
—Billie Holiday
ATTITUDE
"Cock your hat. Angles are attitudes."
—Frank Sinatra
"It isn't about beauty. It's about attitude."
—Adriana Lima
"Attitudes are caught, not taught."
—Mr. McFeely
CONFIRMATION BIAS
"You're only as good as your last picture."
—Humphrey Bogart
"You're only as good as your last envelope."
—Silvio Dante
"You're only as good as your last rhythm section."
—Art Farmer