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“Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.”
Source : Faith Baldwin (1972). “One more time”, Holt McDougal
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“I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.”
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“In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.”
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“Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.”
Source : Adélia Prado (2011). “The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems”, p.3, Wesleyan University Press
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“Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.”
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“Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.”
Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.107, Univ of California Press
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“It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.”
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“We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.”
Source : Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 16, 2014.