"I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms."

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Source : "The pick of the Montreal Comedy Festival". www.theguardian.com. September 09, 1999.

Gary Valentine

“The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.”
“Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.”

Source : "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.
“Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.”
“I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.”
“Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.”
“The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.”
“The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?”
“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”

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