"Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove."

-- Edith Piaf

#Fly Away Quotes #Dove Quotes #Curtains Quotes

“It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.”
“I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.”
“So I always think its important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.”
“My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.”
“You have got to compete with them...you have to be working toward a future of your own. A picture of the future of your own that is contradictory to theirs, in which the things that they want to do have no place because you have been so successful at promoting the idea of sex within marriage...focus on transforming the society to be reinforcing of all these ideas...everywhere...When you do that then you create a climate in which these things really cannot get very far.”
“Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.”
“When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.”

Source : "Tilting at Tree Bags" by Ian Frazier, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.
“Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.”

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