"Be special. Be anything but mediocre."

-- Anita Roddick

#Special Quotes #Mediocre Quotes

“If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”
“The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.”

Source : "Sam Shepard opens up". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.
“I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.”
“The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.”
“I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.”
“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.”
“Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties”
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the yearâ€™s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breathâ€¦”

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