"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere."

-- Guillaume Apollinaire

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“I was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.
“That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.”
“To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.”
“Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.”
“When you're the leader, everything is your fault.”
“When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.”
“As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.”

Source : Joseph Monninger (2011). “The World As We Know It”, p.301, Simon and Schuster
“I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.”

Source : "Demi Moore & Amanda De Cadenet: In Conversation". Interview With Amanda De Cadenet, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 4, 2012.

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