"I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society."

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Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

Laurence Equilbey

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“I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.”
“I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.”

Source : "Cover Model: Jennifer Love Hewitt!". Interview with Claire Trageser, womensrunning.competitor.com. September 13, 2013.
“The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.”
“I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.”
“It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”
“A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.”
“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 28, 2012
“I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.”

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