"Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives."

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Source : "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

Elaine Stritch

“I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.”

Source : "'On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 21, 2010.
“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
“I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.”

Source : "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”

Source : Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" l. 26 (1963)
“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”
“I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Why do you dwell on things that don't matter when there are so many things that do?”
“When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.”

Source : Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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