"We're all who we are endlessly."

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Source : Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.265, Ballantine Books

Marlena De Blasi

#Who We Are Quotes

“I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.”
“Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.”

Source : "Emma Watson attacked for 'exploiting' Alan Rickman's death 'to push her own feminist agenda'" by Helen Pye, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2016.
“A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”
“I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.”

Source : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.154, U of Nebraska Press
“My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.”
“I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.' I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.' 'What does that mean?' 'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.”
“Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.”

Source : "How to Succeed in Hollywood Despite Being Really Beautiful". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011.
“If you're gonna sing, sing loud.”

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