"I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations."

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Source : Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. August 27, 2002.

Rupert Holmes

#Vacation Quotes #Careers Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.”

Source : Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
“... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense”

Source : Alfred Tarski, Steven R. Givant (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”
“There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.”
“There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.”
“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
“I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.”
“I wanted to be my own heroine.”

Source : Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.86, A&C Black
“True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219

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