"I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Alex Winston

#Thinking Quotes #Reason Quotes #Get Away Quotes

“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”
“A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.”
“Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.”
“I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.”

Source : "In Tito's Death Marches and Extermination Camps" by Joseph Hecimovic, John Prcela, (p. 163), 1962.
“To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012
“After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.”
“To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.”

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.173, Simon and Schuster
“She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.”

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