"We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterdayâ€™s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls."

-- Daphne du Maurier

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“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
“The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.”
“I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.”
“Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.”
“In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.”
“I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.”

Source : Guardian interviews at the BFI with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16 , 2001.
“It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.”
“I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.”

Source : "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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