"I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'"

-- Josephine Baker

#Thinking Quotes #Paris Quotes #People Quotes

“I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.”
“Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.”
“I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.”
“On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.”

Source : "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.
“She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.”
“It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never stop planning. How we survive and move on. There's a sadness that comes with survival, but also more joy to be had.”

Source : Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.287, Simon and Schuster
“Just washed, How chill The white leeks!”
“The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.”

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