"I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song."

-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Song Quotes #Voice Quotes #Gaps Quotes

“I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.”
“But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.”
“I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.”

Source : Susan Minot (2014). “Thirty Girls”, p.167, Vintage
“Keep a secure home base.”
“There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!”
“Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.”
“I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.”
“I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.”

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