"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."

-- Lara St. John

#Art Quotes #Government Quotes #Years Quotes

“We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.”
“Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin
“I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.”
“I schooled in the Boston area.”
“I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.”
“Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.”
“I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.”
“It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.”

Source : "The Story of a Strong Woman in a Patriarchal Country: Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. June 22, 2012.

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