"Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?"

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Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Affinity”, p.229, Penguin

Sarah Waters

#Voice Quotes #Gentleman Quotes

“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
“I don't like being treated differently.”
“I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“(Playing with Jeffster at Comic-Con) was absolutely the scariest thing I have ever done. I literally skipped over the 'what a great moment' to 'oh, my God, I can't believe I have to do this.' And when I was up there, the people were, like, "Oh, my God," and they were all screaming and stuff. But I didn't hear a thing. I was just in my own little bubble of horror and panic, utterly, utterly blanched with terror.”
“This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.”
“I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.”
“The first reaction to truth is hatred.”
“They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.”

Source : "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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