"I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted."

-- Al Franken

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“My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.”

Source : "Suzy Menkes cleans house" by Lars Byrresen Petersen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2013.
“Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.”
“With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.”
“You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.”
“If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.”
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”

Source : "Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, 1997.
“People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.”

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