"She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read."

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Source : Lucinda Riley (2012). “The Orchid House: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Lucinda Riley

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“When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.”
“A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or itâ€™s really hard to catch.”
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.”
“I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.”
“I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.”

Source : "You Can’t Ruffle Sandra Lee". Interview by Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.
“To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.”
“Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “The Sympaty of Religions”, p.16
“I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.”

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