"I've always had facility with the German accent."

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Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

Mercedes Ruehl

#Accents Quotes #Facility Quotes

“I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
“I like anybody who does any kind of construction.”
“Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 3, 2013
“David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .”
“There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.”
“Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.”
“Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.”

Source : Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.175, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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