"No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage."

-- Roger Meddows Taylor

#Shy Quotes #Kind Quotes #Stage Quotes

“To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”
“When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.”
“We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ***** for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.”
“When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.”
“Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
“I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.”

Source : "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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