"I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an adoring audience that's aging as well, and the plain truth is that I wasn't condemned by that because I've never had to be somebody to do something. I don't have a five year-plan. I just hope the phone will ring and it will bring an opportunity to dominate my life."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Van Dyke Parks

#Moving Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Aging Quotes

“Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.”
“As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.”

Source : "'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2006.
“in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!”
“I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away....”
“I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.”

Source : William Shirley, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1973). “Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760”
“How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing”
“If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.”
“At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.”

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