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“Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.”
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“When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.”
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“Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.”
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“You gotta have fun. Even now we have fun onstage.”
Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
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“When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.”
Source : "The search for Greater Albania" by Paulin Kola, Hurst, London, (p. 1), 2003.
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“She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.”
Source : Ruth Reichl (2011). “Tender At The Bone”, p.34, Random House
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“Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.”
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“Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.”
