"A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that."

-- David Bowie

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“It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.”

Source : Archibald Rutledge (2015). “The Doom of Ravenswood”, p.34, Univ of South Carolina Press
“Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.”

Source : Curt Siodmak (1997). “Wolf Man's Maker: Memoir of a Hollywood Writer”
“I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.”
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
“To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.”
“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”
“The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.”
“It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.”

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