"I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played."

-- Virgil Thomson

“I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.”
“If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.”
“I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”
“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps”

Source : C.E. Murphy (2009). “Urban Shaman”, p.80, LUNA
“Matt Hardy's quicker than a hiccup.”
“How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor."”

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