"When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I would pour grape juice over mounds of ice cream and settle in to see what was happening with Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans and the boys in The Big Valley."

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Elizabeth Crook

#Boys Quotes #Ice Quotes #Escaping Quotes

“Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.”
“A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.”
“Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.”
“A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.”
“I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster.”
“It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.”
“Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.”
“If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.”

Source : "A Special Mission" by Dan Kurzman, (p. 9), 2007.

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