"There is no good singing, there is only present and absent."

-- Jeff Buckley

#Singing Quotes #Absent Quotes

“You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber
“To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.”

Source : Pamela Druckerman (2014). “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)”, p.22, Penguin
“If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.”

Source : "STAGE TO SCREENS: Andrew Rannells, From The Book of Mormon to TV's "The New Normal"". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. September 11, 2012.
“I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.”
“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”

Source : Letter to Isaac Goldberg in "The Memory of All That" by Joan Peyser (p. 80), 1993.
“There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the world knows nothing about; but God knows them. So words are not always necessary. When we cannot express our feelings except in wordless groanings, God knows exactly what is happening.”
“Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.”

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