"Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa piÃ¹, meno saÂ— Who knows most, knows least."

-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.”
“I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.”
“Creativity is a continual surprise.”
“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2012
“Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage
“Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.”
“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?”

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