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Belle
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- Dunedin, FL
- United States
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"You must be the change you seek in this world." Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian philosopher & political figure
Profile Information
- About Me/Us:
- I have been a widow since October 2000, and am now beginning a new road in my life. I have a partner now, a wonderful man. Michael is, I think, the man I have been waiting for all of my life. He really does treat me like a queen. I didn't think I would ever find someone who would be so "right" for me. I had told myself I would not settle for anything other than the best - and that is what I now have.
I am doubly blessed because Michael has a lovely, intelligent and funny daughter - and we care for each other too. I feel as though I am part of a family, and that is a wonderful feeling to have.As I told Michael (only half joking) no matter what happens between us, Sarah is part of my life now.
So I can tell everyone that yes, life is not over just because you think it is. You DO have to get back out there and become a part of the world again. You will be happily surprised at what comes your way once you start giving again, and stop focusing on your losses and pain. Worked for me.
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- Movies
- Metropolis (1927), Dinner at Eight (1933), Lost Horizon (1937), Night Must Fall (1937), Rebecca (1940), The Big Sleep (1946), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Vertigo (1953), Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Paper Moon (1973), The Devil's Backbone (2001), all Charles Chaplin, all Lon Chaney, all Greta Garbo, all Bette Davis, Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers musicals, Busby Berkley musicals, all Michael Powell films and I know this is just a start...
- Television
- Masterpiece Theater, American Experience, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Colbert Report, Reno 911, South Park, Fawlty Towers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Law & Order (the Sam Waterston episodes), Westminster Dog Show, Nova, Nature, BBC World News, Classic Films, Independent Films, Documentaries, and while I know I forgot some, you get the idea.
- Music
- Traffic, Steve Winwood, The Talking Heads, Yes, David Bowie, Nick Lowe, ZZ Top, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, The Kinks, The Blasters, Live, Incubus, The Decemberists, Beirut, Big Star, Björk, The Beatles, The Greatful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Rock Fusion, Progressive Rock, Indie & Alternative Rock, Jam Rock, ClassIc Rock, Reggae, Classic & Modern Blues, R&B, Big Band, Classic Country and Western, Folk, Classical, Opera
- Books
- Leaves of Grass, The Lovely Bones, A Brief History of Time, The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, Lonesome Dove, Vietnam, a History, all P.G. Wodehouse, all Charles Dickens, all Jane Austin (and I was reading her as a child in the early '70's thanks to my big brother who recommended her to me), all Tony Morrison, all Evelyn Waugh, all Zora Neale Hurston, all Raymond Chandler, all Walter Mosley, all Patricia Highsmith, all A.A. Milne, all Berkeley Breathed, and I know this is just a start...
- Heroes
- I would rather list favorite quotes, so here they are:
"You must be the change you seek in this world." Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian philosopher & political figure
"You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces." Groucho Marx's character, Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Horse Feathers, 1932 film
“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.” Martin Niemoeller, German Protestant pastor, theologian. Attributed in Congressional Record, vol. 114, p. 31636 (Oct. 14, 1968)
"Bring on the empty horses!" Director Michael Curtiz, during filming of the 1936 classic film “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” (He was referring to the riderless horses.)
" Gentleness is invincible." Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Roman Emperor
“Human Rights: Know them, demand them, defend them.” From a fortune cookie given with a Chinese dinner
“A liberal...is someone who never gives up trying to see the other person’s point of view...never stops doubting himself, for self-doubt is precisely what allows us to make room in our minds for someone else’s views and to keep the possibility of communication between us alive. A fundamentalist…is someone to whom the very idea of point of view is immaterial, or worse…” Nick Bromell, St. Petersburg Times, Sunday, January 21, 2007
“The most serious thing we do on this earth is to love; the rest hardly matters.” Julien Green (1900-1998) American-born French author
“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” Henry David Thoreau
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” Bertrand Russell
"It has been said that every man must properly pay the fiddler. Alas, in my case, it happened that an entire symphony orchestra had to be subsidized." John Barrymore (The Great Profile) 1882 to 1942
"Time wounds all heels." Groucho Marx, Go West, 1940 Film
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, Legendary Cartoonist
“John, every day you act worse, but today you're acting like tomorrow." Fred Astaire’s character, Huckleberry Haines, Roberta, 1935 film
My Film Lists at IMDB.com
I love, love, love film. The links to my film lists are here. Please suggest any films you think I should see. Thanks.
MY MOVIE LISTS AT IMDB.COM:
Favorites: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=22458454
I Liked: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28223930
Contemporary: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=37081012
Silent: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=24336958
MY MOVIE LISTS AT IMDB.COM:
Favorites: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=22458454
I Liked: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28223930
Contemporary: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=37081012
Silent: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=24336958
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"Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?"
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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