"I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down."

-- Annie Baker

#Talking Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.”
“The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.”
“Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.”
“Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.”

Source : Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns
“I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.”

Source : Jack Shadbolt (1968). “In search of form”
“Life is too short for non-WOW projects.”
“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”

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