"I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."

-- Wanda Jackson

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“The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.”
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.”
“it is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do ...”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”
“For most men, time moves slowly, oh so slowly, they don't even realize it. But time has revealed itself to me in a very special way. Time is a rushing, howling wind that rages past me, withering me in a single, relentless blast, and then continues on. I've been sitting here passively, submissive to its rage, watching its work. Listen! Time, howling, withering!”
“Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.”
“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.”
“Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.”

Source : "I just wanted to be the best in the world" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2001.
“The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.”

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