"I am the only girl in the family so everyone pampered me."

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Blanka Vlasic

“Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.”
“To kill nothing, that is love.”
“Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.”
“Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.”
“Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”
“I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it .”
“99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.”
“If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.”

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