"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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“I have to admit that I am not great at selecting music for CDs! I have a few personal favorites, and then I let my producer take it from there!”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?”
“Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.”
“Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.”
“Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.”
“At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.”
“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK
“I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually. And there will never be another Annette Funicello. I suppose it's the slight starchiness of the innocence that makes it unrepeatable.”

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