"Disaster is private, in its way, as love is."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Love Is Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Way Quotes

“I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.”
“Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.”

Source : Jo Beverley (2005). “A Most Unsuitable Man”, p.23, Penguin
“Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need”
“One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.”
“Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; itâ€™s the downside of being a star player.”
“Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.”
“I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.”
“I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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