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“Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.”
Source : Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.267, Egmont UK
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“Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down.”
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“I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.”
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“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.”
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“Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.”
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“I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.”
Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
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“As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.”
Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.11, Pan Macmillan