"My first character was Mr. Toad."

-- Bill Griffith

#Character Quotes #Toads Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.”

Source : "Random Rules: Albert Hammond Jr". Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. May 8, 2007.
“When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.”
“At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.”

Source : "Face of Chanel, mind of her own". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2000.
“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85, Cambridge University Press
“A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.”
“[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect”
“Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a lot of hiring over eight years, not just political appointees. And they've done a lot of firing or driving people out who might have countermanded or resisted. So, institutionally, it's not going to be simply a matter of flipping the switch to undo it. You're going have to bring in people dedicated to transparency, and you have to demonstrate that there are rewards for candor.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down, I'll take a book with children's pictures and look at it and it will just lift me up. Being around children is magic.”

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