"â€¦I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes theyâ€™re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story."

-- Grace Paley

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“I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.”
“I myself have participated in girl-on-girl shows for men that would ask for it, of which were very, very many. It is a popular request, especially at bachelor parties. It also paid a much higher dividend. Also when I worked the escort services, certain male/female clients would call and ask for a male/male team and the escort services that I worked for provided this specific request.”
“I'd love to have a lifetime career. If you look at people like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, people who have been there forever and who still make relevant music that people want to listen to - that would be amazing. I hope to be able to do that. But above all else, I feel like I just want to be happy.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I started producing in 1992 at the age of 15, when I found out music could be made with the help of a computer. I come from a musical family, but was always the family member not as good as the others. So once I found out I could release the music that was stuck inside my head through a computer, I knew I found what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”
“Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its success was almost certain to involved them in civil war. And the more politically educated knew that the Stuart Pretender was a pawn in a worldwide struggle for commercial and imperial primacy between Britain and France.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.79, Yale University Press
“Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.”
“Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself”

Source : Joan Bauer (2005). “Backwater”, p.9, Penguin
“Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.”

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