"[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays."

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Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

Robert Dessaix

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.”
“This work of the Lord is indeed great and marvelous, but it moves forward essentially unnoticed by many of mankind's political, cultural, and academic leaders. It progresses one heart and one family at a time, silently and unobtrusively, its sacred message blessing people everywhere.”
“Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.”

Source : "Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is a Terrible Defense of Minor Privacy Violations" by Natalie Shoemaker, bigthink.com.
“I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 15, 2007.
“Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.”
“The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.”

Source : "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.
“The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.”
“The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.”

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