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“But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!”
Source : Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.”
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“The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.”
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“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
Source : Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press
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“I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?”
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“Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.”
Source : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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“I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.”
Source : "Tales of the city" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2003.
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“At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.”