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“Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.”
Source : Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.
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“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.”
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“Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.”
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“In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.”
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“... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.”
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“A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.”
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“On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.”
Source : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin