"Beauty like hers is genius."

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Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.”
“In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”

Source : Attributed to Margaret Mead in "Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Volume 3" edited by Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzeheiser, and others (p. 13), 2000.
“I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.”
“I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.”
“You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with murder suspects?' He waved his hand. 'Oh, I was only joking about that. I don't really think you murdered someone. Unless you did, in which case I reserve the right to say I knew it all along.”
“Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?”

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