"The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top."

-- Al McGuire

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“Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. Itâ€™s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.”
“To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.”
“You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?”
“Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.”
“The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.”
“There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.”
“In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.”

Source : Ed Naha, Roger Corman (1982). “The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget”

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