"Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune."

-- Menander

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“The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.”
“Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer ofâ€¦ meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.”
“There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.”
“The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.”

Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.34, Transaction Publishers
“There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.”
“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”
“I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.”

Source : "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.
“I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.”

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