#ra

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#astonishing #black #few #go #green

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. ↗

— August Wilson

#along #characters #discover #go #going

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#disco #diva #entertainment #folk #folk singer

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#big #big hair #certain #certain way #corsets

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband. ↗

— Bridgette Wilson

#crazy #done #finds #husband #i

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#famous #own #right #strange #strange thing

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#away #era #get #i #i am

I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. ↗