"Before I die, I want to be somebodyâ€™s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe."

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Source : Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.64, Penguin

Andrea Gibson

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“One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.”
“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty”
“I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off”
“They can only kill us once.”
“I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.”

Source : "Laughing matters". Book by Larry Gelbart, www.nytimes.com. 1982.
“Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.”

Source : Interview with Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2008.
“I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants”

Source : "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.
“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Source : James Henry Breasted (1933). “The Oriental Institute”

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