"What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast."

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Edith Wharton

#Breakfast Quotes #Bananas Quotes #Shame Quotes

“Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.”
“Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.”
“You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.”
“The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.”
“I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.”
“However you try to define meditation, itâ€™s not that.”
“To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isnt there, its easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, itll come. Its definitely harder work than some people think.”

Source : "Talent and The Lying Game Star Alexandra Chando Admits She Totally Watches Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. April 29, 2011.

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