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“After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.”
Source : Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell
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“I don't see a difference between a biological family and an adoptive one. I think the difference is more in the eyes of others around you, who might judge because you're not the same skin color as your parents.”
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“It's exciting to, uh, it's very exciting to know that doors have a possibility of opening to certain situations.”
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“I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.”
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“Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.”
Source : Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”
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“Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.”
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“I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.”
Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.
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“I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too”
Source : "R.v.R. : Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1930.