"Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror."

-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Home Quotes #Profound Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.”
“Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then thereâ€™s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.”
“THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects..”
“Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...”

Source : "Live at Wembley Stadium". DVD concert footage, 2003.
“Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.”
“Moving to Australia was not a career move, but a quality of life issue. It has no guns, no God, and no gangster rap. As an Ethiopian cab driver said to me the other day when I was returning from a gig in Sydney, Australia is a peaceful, democratic place. I like the relatively stress free lifestyle. It's worth the drop in income.”
“He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet.”
“My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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