"I did have a couple of people asking me to illustrate their MC in a hope to widen the exposure, unfortunately the messages weren't a good fit, so I couldn't oblige. And I didn't really want to become a matchmaking service. Someone posted a missed connection "I like your blog" which was directed at me... that was kind of fun to stumble across."

-- Sophie Blackall

#I Like You Quotes #Couple Quotes #Fun Quotes

“People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.”
“Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.”

Source : "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 117, 2009.
“All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”
“Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.”

Source : Patti LaBelle, Laura Randolph Lancaster (2001). “Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously”, p.55, Hachette UK
“I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.”
“What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?”
“That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.”
“Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.”

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