She’d been through some things, but never mind. She straightened her back. Other people had been through things, too.
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“The following weekend, Eric called my family and asked if we could come over to his apartment. When we got there, there was a brand-new synthesizer keyboard for me with a bow on it. And Robin Williams. I didn’t know until that moment that Robin Williams was to play the part of the King of the Moon. I was a huge fan of Mork & Mindy and I felt weak with happiness to get to be in his presence. I spent the day with Robin and Eric. Robin programmed himself doing different voices on all the effects keys, so I could play whole songs entirely in his voice. That day we walked around Rome, ate gelato, and went to the Vatican and St. Peter’s Square while Robin did impressions of the Pope and kept me laughing all day. From that day forward, both Eric and Robin seemed to have an agenda to make light moments for me. When it was possible, when the world around us wasn’t exploding and crumbling and freezing, they made up games for me, sang songs, and treated the set as a playground.”
― Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
― Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
“If my father had been there, he would have been proud, if he weren’t so inclined to be jealous.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“It’s like the song says—voices carry.”
― Billy Summers
― Billy Summers
“Python was like my Bible, and in many ways it provoked contemplation just like that ratty old book. Also, it was kinder and more truthful.”
― Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
― Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
“There was something about Christmas Eve, they both felt, that demanded company; one needed somebody to whisper to, during the warm beautiful dream-taut moments between hanging the empty stocking at the end of the bed, and dropping into the cosy oblivion that would flower into the marvel of Christmas morning.”
― The Dark Is Rising
― The Dark Is Rising
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