"I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change."

-- Stacy Schiff

#Children Quotes #Library Quotes #World Quotes

“(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)”
“Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.”

Source : Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster
“Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.”
“If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.”
“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
“The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it -- and I do -- and subtle -- beige, pink, white, tan, taup...”
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.”

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