"Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand."

“Some makeup you put on and feel like youre getting pimples by the hour.”

Source : "Model Behavior / Vendela makes room in her life for charity, upcoming marriage and a 'Batman' movie" by Trish Donnally, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 1996.

“It's a folk singers job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people”

“Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.”

“Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.”

“A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.”

Source : Alice Childress (2012). “Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life”, p.78, Beacon Press

“When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.”

“Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife”

“Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where the local coffee shop is which happens to have paid, you know, whoever makes your phone at the right moment. I think we're in a future where frankly we are possibly facing little tiny bits of manipulation in all of our waking hours, if we don't have that already.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org