"People don't want to see wrinkles, because if they see wrinkles in actors then they have to face that they have wrinkles, too. They'd rather see perfection up there. And so then you get rocket scientists who are 22 years old."

-- Stephanie Zimbalist

#Years Quotes #Wrinkles Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.”
“I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.”
“I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.”
“A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1932). “Down the garden path”, Doubleday, Doran & co., inc.
“Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.”
“I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.”
“Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.”
“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”

Source : "Fictional character: Karen Blixen". "Out of Africa", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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