"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"

-- Poppy Z. Brite

#America Quotes #Netherlands Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.”
“I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.”

Source : "South Florida's Steven Bauer returns to TV". Interview with Johnny Diaz, articles.sun-sentinel.com. June 20, 2013.
“If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.”
“Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”

Source : Tallulah ch. 4 (1952)
“To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.”
“I was a bleeding-heart liberal, until I got a job.”
“Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.”
“The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.”

Source : Paul Pearsall (1996). “The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, to Work, to Play-- Life in the Balance”, p.54, Hunter House

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