"No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger."

-- Jane Seymour

#War Quotes #Names Quotes #Dancing Quotes

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.173, Macmillan
“I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.”
“Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing it. At the end, it lost the essence. It lost the first idea, the energy that it had, it's going down after every change. And at the end it's something soft and too much rewritten or too much rebuilt that doesn't have the same energy as the beginning. So, I like the first takes because of that, you know. It has that first energy that sometimes it's difficult to recreate.”
“Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!”

Source : Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
“I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now...”
“The Lord spoke to me and said, He is coming as the Ancient of Days and because He is the Ancient of Days there is an ancient key that He carries. And in the carrying of this key you have seen the enemy take his place between you and the promise at this level.”
“Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.”
“I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.”

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