"I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around."

-- Gary Burton

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“Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.”
“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.”
“I think its the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.”
“That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.”

Source : "I'm no scouse specialist" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.
“In “Curvy,” they are superhappy with their sizes. We help them dress fashionably. We say: It’s pointless for you to buy leggings, take this because this will look good on you. We help them choose. We don’t talk about diets because they don’t want to be on a diet, but it’s not a ghetto. Why should these women slim down? Many of the women who have a few extra kilos are especially beautiful and also more feminine.”

Source : Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. April 27, 2011.
“Arsenal have been literally passed to death.”
“I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”
“That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”

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