"If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country."

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Source : Janet Campbell Hale (1998). “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter”, p.20, University of Arizona Press

Janet Campbell Hale

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“I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.”
“Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.”
“He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.”

Source : Eloisa James (2012). “The Ugly Duchess: Number 4 in series”, p.124, Hachette UK
“Sometimes it's difficult because you like some regularity in your life, but never knowing who's gonna pop up at what show, what person you might see that you don't expect to see in that city, what problem you're gonna have that night, even the problems at some of these venues, if you look at them the right way, it's an adventure. You're like a cowboy. That's the best part about being in the music industry. You get your gun and you ride your horse.”
“The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.”
“I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.”
“If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2017). “Flatland”, p.17, BookRix
“Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!”

Source : Quoted in Bill Hornadge, The Australian Slanguage (1980)

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