"I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh."

-- Monica Ali

#Taste Quotes #Nina Quotes #Singh Quotes

“Every winner has scars.”
“To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings..., In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.”
“The world is rather shot to pieces (end of World War II), 1945), but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. ..May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything (using his bed sheets as canvas”

Source : "Max Beckmann". Book by Stephan Lackner, 1983.
“Jerome Bettis should be in the Hall of Fame”
“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How I wish I were able to say what I think ...”

Source : Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”
“It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.”
“It's possible to transform the violent energy of our time into a culture of kindness. All things are possible through the openness of our mind, the gentleness of our spirit, and the act of understanding and embracing.”

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