"We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high."

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Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.6, Knopf

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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“When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.”

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“Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.32, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.”
“I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?”
“That's worst than gonerreha, man!”
“In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.”
“Belief is everything when you're performing something. If you don't have the belief behind it, then that actually puts a shunt on the character. It's like, "Does the character believe this for a minute?"”

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“It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be in the matter of prayer? Let us not suppose that just any sort of praying will do for China. We must all wrestle with God. 'I will not let Thee go unless Thou bless China.' It must come to this if the conversion of the Chinese is ever to be an accomplished fact. Such is my conviction. Let me remind you that the greatest importunity is not incompatible with the profoundest submission to the Divine will.”

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