"This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time"

-- Richard Simmons

#Play Quotes #Theater Quotes

“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”

Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

Source : Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”
“The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.”
“When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.”
“You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.”

Source : Lynn Grabhorn (2001). “Beyond the Twelve Steps: Roadmap to a New Life”, p.160, Hampton Roads Publishing
“Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.”
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.24
“The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.”

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