"My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India."

-- Ricky Jay

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Kings Quotes

“Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.26, Stanford University Press
“Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.”
“As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.”
“Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.”
“I always love costume, and I'm always heavily involved in how things should look. Or how they should feel really, because that's part of the way I suppose I get into character in some ways. It's a lot about costume.”
“Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.”
“Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.”
“A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.”

Source : "Ten Composers". Book by Neville Cardus, August 1944.

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