"An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance."

-- Michael Shurtleff

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“Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."”
“If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?”
“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.173, Wendy Lamb Books
“If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.”
“I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.”
“Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.”
“I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.”

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