"At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself."

-- Marsha Norman

#Heart Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes #Play Quotes

“I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.”
“It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.”
“Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.”
“I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!”

Source : "Amy Pascal: An untypical leading lady who's taken Sony to the top" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2006.
“Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “Relativity, Philosophy and Mind: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication
“You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.”
“We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense - is one of the few spaces where we're allowed to look and think without an immediate response or reaction.”

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