"Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year."

-- Charles Lamb

#New Year Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Years Quotes

“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.”
“Iâ€™d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.”
“Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.”
“One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.”
“It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”
“Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.”
“The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.”

Source : Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.157, Northwestern University Press
“Sacrifice. I'd never been in a position where I was number one on the call sheet, and everything was in my lap. I worked 16 hour days, and I was just not the lead of any film, it was a film about Jesse Owens, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. It was a whole new type of responsibility. It was a big weight, and I wanted to do him justice, especially in reviving him after 80 years.”

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