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“Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.”
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“I'll perform all the way to the grave.”
Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Sep 19, 2012
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“I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.”
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“Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.”
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“Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.”
Source : Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub
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“It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.”
Source : "Tyler Oakley’s First Ever Australian Interview – Exclusive". Interview with Monique Pueblos, herbrainvomit.com. 2013.
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“Objectivity? I always have an objective.”
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“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books