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“Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “PENELOPE’S PROGRESS – The Complete Series: Penelope's English Experiences, Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, Penelope's Irish Experiences & Penelope's Postscripts: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton”, p.57, e-artnow
“I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.”
“The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.”
“I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.”
“You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.”
“What' s the matter with me? Why can't I be cool?”
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.”
“On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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