"It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up."

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Source : Paula Danziger (2006). “There's a Bat in Bunk Five”, p.25, Penguin

Paula Danziger

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.”
“A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.”
“In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.”
“Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.”
“Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.”
“When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.
“And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.”
“Art is the daughter of pleasure.”

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