"His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra grew up, as my grandparents did, when being Italian was very, very prejudice against, but they didn't let it bring them down or use it as an excuse."

-- Robert Davi

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“So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
“I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.”
“Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes”
“We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.”
“If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”
“Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.”

Source : Andrew Pyper (2014). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
“After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.”

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