"When you want something very dearly, you make the time."

-- Nana Mouskouri

“I had to learn all the pieces backward and forward [to play it in "Florence Foster Jenkins"]. We practiced on weekends. It was very much like being in school, except it was with Meryl Streep. Like, I would go to her apartment and we would practice Mozart's "Queen of the Night."”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan
“The only time he cries is if heâ€™s hungry.Â We all have nipples. I donâ€™t care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I canâ€™t get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.”

Source : "Selma Blair Admits to Breastfeeding in Public". People Magazine Interview, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. March 30, 2012.
“No one's dream job involves a kiosk.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 29, 2011
“In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.”
“Feathers! spluttered Sargatanas. Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret. He said, and drew me closer. The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.”
“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”
“A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 2, 2014

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