"Politics are not my arena. Music is."

-- Aretha Franklin

#Arena Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”

Source : "The Eye of the World". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.
“I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.”

Source : Interview with William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.
“'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.”
“Once I step on the court in San Antonio, I feel the support in the air.”
“I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.”
“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”
“I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.”
“Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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