"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope."

-- Mahalia Jackson

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“I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.”
“Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.”
“There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.”

Source : Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.98, Yale University Press
“There's so much more freedom in film as far as subject matter and what can be said. And then, also, the process is different because there's more time. On movies there's just so much freedom and space to explore in front of the camera.”

Source : Source: www.ew.com
“You only get a chance to live your dream once, and I'm living mine right now.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school. One of the reasons why I decided to continue on with the acting was the opera world is fraught with a very long process, and I did love the acting, as well. The acting took off sooner, and then you get involved with that.”
“The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.”

Source : "Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 30, 2008.
“I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.”

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