"One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up."

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Source : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

Bernie Taupin

#Years Quotes #Interviews Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.”
“Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
“There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.”
“Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix MÃ©dicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”

Source : Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr
“If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.”

Source : Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books
“We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our courage gives us hope.”

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