"It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often that writers have access to living primary source material; this was the only person who experienced life on the vaudeville circuit with Gypsy during the 1920s, and who saw her perform at Minsky's Burlesque in the 1930s. She knew things that no one else could ever possibly know."

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Source : Source: tech.blorge.com

Karen Abbott

#June Quotes #Rose Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1851). “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series”, p.342
“Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also”
“The only way to write a book, Iâ€™m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. Thatâ€™s how you write a book.”
“I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?”
“Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.”
“To imagine being in Germany having a home crowd is kind of silly, but we'll take it.”
“Each bird must sing with his own throat.”
“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”

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