"If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper."

-- Winifred Holtby

#Flower Quotes #Book Quotes #Car Quotes

“Free is not the same as free and easy.”
“We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.”
“All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.”
“Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.”

Source : Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.192, Vintage
“You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.”
“Ive been blessed to have a long career.”
“If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.”

Source : Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.
“Unfortunately, the business is such that, as far as studios are concerned, they judge one quote-unquote black movie on how other â€˜blackâ€™ movies have done, even if they have nothing to do with each other Â Itâ€™s too bad we canâ€™t do well on our own merit when it comes to the studios. They donâ€™t like to take risks and, unfortunately, weâ€™re still considered a huge risk, even though I donâ€™t think we are.”

Source : "Black Actors’ Roles Are No Longer ‘Just The Black Best Friend Or The Crackhead’" by Danielle Cadet, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2014.

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