"It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone."

-- Max von Essen

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“My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.”
“You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or..." "Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite. "Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.”
“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.”

Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 76, 1954.
“Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.”
“The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.”
“It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products.”
“I rode a horse into a tree. I did. But I'm okay. Horses are naturally meant to avoid trees. This one didn't.”
“The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.”

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