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«You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.»
Author: Cab Calloway
(Drummer, Entertainer, Singer)
| Keywords:
backs, built in, Duke, Duke of, Fletcher, jazz, the duke, The Dukes, The Duke of
«When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.»
«The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.»
«The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| Keywords:
backs, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intruding, shelves, slander, Society of
«Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| Keywords:
backs, push, push back, push forward, put forward, shoulder, shoulders, slightly, touches
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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Art,
Nature,
Painting
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, backs, copied, deliberately, preconceived, work in
«We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.»
«Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
backs, moor, mooring, Moors, The Beast, The Moor
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