"Truth will only make you unpopular."

-- Wolfgang Borchert

“In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.”
“My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.”
“Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.”
“Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.”

Source : Interview with Sonnet Stanfill, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.
“You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.”
“A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.”
“My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.”

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