"... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Tallulah Bankhead

#Names Quotes #People Quotes #Olives Quotes

“I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care of ourselves in a lot of ways but it's like we're missing a piece. When everyone went to school to learn how to be a regular person we were sick that day. We compensate other ways. Alcohol and drugs is one of those ways. Instead of learning how to cope with our problems and deal with hardship and deal with anger, we just decide to get drunk and not care.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.”
“You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.”
“Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.”
“The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.”
“Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls”
“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”

Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.109, A&C Black
“I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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