"The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?"

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Source : Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

Lisa Ann Sandell

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“Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!”
“As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.”

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“What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?”
“I believe I can do things people think are impossible.”
“It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.”
“Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.”
“IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.”
“Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.”

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