Vanessa Redgrave (b. Jan 30): “Integrity is so perishable.”

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• Ernest Hemingway: “A true writer should always try for something that’s never been done.”
• Cher, b. May 20: “The longer I look good, the better gay men feel.”
• Blues Tutorial #10: Good places for the blues – highway, jailhouse, empty bed, and bottom of a whiskey glass.
• Malcolm X, b. May 19: “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
• Warning: This novel contains trace amounts of astrology!
• Tina Fey, b. May 18: “A rectal thermometer’s the best way to take a baby’s temperature. Plus, it teaches the baby who’s boss.”
• Enya, b. May 17: “Writing every song is a little journey.”
• Heinrich Heine: “There is no Sixth Commandment in art.”
• Megan Fox, b. May 16: “I’m so mentally ill, I could do something really interesting.”
• Jasper Johns, b. May 15: “To be an artist you have to give up everything.”
• David Byrne, b. May 14: “An artist’s creativity comes from torment.”
• Stevie Wonder, b. May 13: “Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.”
• George Carlin, b. May 12: “By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
• Salvador Dali, b. May 11: “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
• Bono, b. May 10: “It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.”
• Blues Tutorial #9: You can’t have no blues in an office or shopping mall.
• Billy Joel, b. May 9: “I am merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
• Peter Benchley: “Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time.”
• Harry Truman, b. May 8: “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.”
• Elizabeth Bowen: “Dialogue should be brief.”
• Eva Peron, b. May 7: “One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.”
• William Zinsser: “Writing is linear and sequential.”
• Orson Welles, b. May 6: “I started at the top and worked my way down.”
• Tammy Wynette, b. May 5: “It’s hard giving all your love to just one man.”
• Audrey Hepburn, b. May 4: “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
• James Brown, b. May 3: “The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.”
• David Beckham, b. May 2: “I always wanted to be a hairdresser.”
• Blues Tutorial #8: A man with male pattern baldness ain’t the blues.
• Joseph Heller, b. May 1: “A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime.”
• Al-Quebeca: word cloud
• Blues Tutorial #7: You can’t have the blues in any place that don’t get rain.
• Willie Nelson, b. Apr 30: “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
• Jerry Seinfeld, b. Apr 29: “Bookstores are the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
• Jay Leno, b. Apr 28: “If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.”
• Coretta Scott King, b. Apr 27: “Women must become the soul of the nation.”
• Carol Burnett, b. Apr 26: “Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.”
• My novel “Al-Quebeca” ripped from tomorrow’s headlines
• Ray Bradbury: “You can’t learn to write in college.”
• Al Pacino, b. Apr 25: “I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.”
• Blues Tutorial #6: Teenagers can’t sing the blues.
• Barbra Streisand, b. Apr 24: “I’m simple, complex, lazy and driven.”
• William Shakespeare, b. Apr 23: “A fool thinks himself wise, but a wise man knows he’s a fool.”
• Blues Tutorial #5: Blues cars are Chevys, Cadillacs & broken-down trucks.
• Vladimir Nabokov, b. Apr 22: “I think like a genius, speak like a child.”
• Iggy Pop, b. Apr 21: “Nobody understands me, I’m really sensitive.”
• Joan Miro, b. Apr 20: “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems.”
• Jayne Mansfield, b. Apr 19: “Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.”
• Conan O’Brien, b. Apr 18: “Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.”
• Blues Tutorial #4: The blues are not about choice.
• Victoria Beckham, b. Apr 17: “As a performer you become a celebrity, but you’re not saving lives.”