"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."

-- Lara St. John

#Grateful Quotes #Past Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.”
“You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.”
“The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.”
“In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.”
“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”
“The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.”
“I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.”
“I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually theyâ€™ll catch up.”

Source : "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

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