"I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best."

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Source : "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, 2001.

Gracie Allen

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“There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.”
“We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.”
“I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the best yet. And I'm loving it and it's not like work, it's not like a labor, I love doing it, and the boys are coming back and they're loving the scripts.”
“Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.”
“I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.”
“I never, even for a moment, doubted what theyâ€™d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubtâ€™s complete absence. They have forgotten.”
“My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle”

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