"I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes."

-- Edith Piaf

#Song Quotes #Children Quotes #Eye Quotes

“What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?”
“When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
“The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.”

Source : 1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.
“We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.”
“I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.”
“I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.”
“Put yourself out of your misery.”

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