"Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis."
"In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me."
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Source: Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”
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