If you can dream it, you can do it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.