"Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of those women men like to call 'a pal' and 'a good sport,' the kind of woman they tell their troubles to. But you've cut yourself off from the orchids and the diamond bracelets, except those you buy yourself."

-- Sophie Tucker

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“My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.”

Source : Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media
“Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.”
“I like the boundaryless potential you get when you make work for a context that is open to interpretation. Thinking about an art context is too claustrophobic, though. I always hope that at least half my audience is not directly related to the art world. I use art as a balancing act. It's a good way of avoiding everyday chores and social obligations.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.”

Source : Grace Ogot (1988). “Land Without Thunder”, p.45, East African Publishers
“One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.”
“Blues ainâ€™t football. You donâ€™t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.”
“For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.”
“Live to paint, don't paint to live.”

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