"When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing."

-- Lea Salonga

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“I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.”
“What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.”
“If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can easily become just a reflection of what others are doing in that field rather than breaking new ground.”
“Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.”
“Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know itâ€™s my religion. Thereâ€™s the idea that you canâ€™t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless youâ€™ve hurt yourself? Iâ€™m still figuring out who I am, but I know that Iâ€™m not who I was.”
“they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly”
“Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr
“Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth.”

Source : "Robert Rubin: How ignoring climate change could sink the U.S. economy" by Robert E. Rubin, www.washingtonpost.com. July 24, 2014.

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