"Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four."

-- Nora Ephron

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“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.”
“When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”
“Touch me â€˜til my ribs become piano keys, â€˜til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.”
“I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.”
“How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.”

Source : Review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly in 1962. "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 117, 1967.
“Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.”
“Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.”
“My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.”

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