"When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall."

-- Julia Child

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“The funniest thing is when somebody says "Look I've no idea who you are but my friend said you are on a show and I just wanted to introduce myself" you know that they are lying! Those people can just get out of my way.”
“An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.”
“The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.”

Source : Janet Burroway (1987). “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft”, Little Brown
“Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.”
“I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.”
“I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners,”
“I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.”

Source : "Cass McCombs’ Good Humor". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2011.
“I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.”

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