"When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful."

-- Charlie Parker

#Beautiful Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Always challenge the old ways.”
“Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.”

Source : "Become Conscious of When You’re Out of Your Truth" by Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.
“I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You're giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired's case, 10 hours of your life. I don't want you to ever leave something I've done feeling worse than when you came in. I hope the work can be aspirational, and aspirational doesn't have to be corny at all.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.”
“He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.”
“Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.”
“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”

Source : Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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