"For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun."

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Tori Amos

#Fun Quotes #Piano Quotes #Dykes Quotes

“Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.”
“Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.”
“Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best". But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.
“The less I talk about being black, the better.”

Source : "From Space to South Africa: Idris Elba on Prometheus and Playing Mandela". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. May 27, 2012.
“It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.”

Source : "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
“With every enemy, when you get closer you understand much more, or the picture dissolves.”
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
“I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.”

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