"Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind."

-- Peter Schjeldahl

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“The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.”
“I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.”
“Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.”
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.”
“one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.”
“If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.”
“Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.”
“I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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