"As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters."

-- Gemma Ward

#Children Quotes #Character Quotes #Fool Quotes

“Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.”
“I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.”
“I like to read books. I like to listen to music.”
“What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.”
“Now he belongs to the ages.”

Source : Quoted in Century Illustrated Magazine, Jan. 1890
“Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.”
“For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.11, Knopf

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