"Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question."

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Source : "A Glastonbury Romance". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 849, March 6, 1932.

John Cowper Powys

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“When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.”

Source : "Meet 'Hellcats' Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.
“There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!”
“I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.”
“I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.”
“I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.”
“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.”
“I'm serious when I'm talking to the press because I'm always on guard because I never know what you're going to ask and I never know how you're going to construe my answer, so I try to maintain a pretty even pace when I'm speaking with the media.”
“I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.”

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