"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Acting Quotes

“And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.”
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

Source : FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011
“One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.”

Source : "The Decline and Fall of Science". Book by Celia Green, 1976.
“I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.”
“...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadnâ€™t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldnâ€™t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!”
“What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to reality, to reason. He is a thinker who, having reflected on the nature of matter, its energy, properties and ways of acting, has no need of idealized powers or imaginary intelligences to explain the phenomena of the universe and the operations of nature.”
“A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.”

Source : John Ciardi (1984). “Selected poems”, Univ of Arkansas Pr
“I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.”

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