"Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre."

-- Kenneth Tynan

#Drama Quotes #Self Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?”
“I think I'm past the age of getting lost.”
“If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.”
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”
“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”
“Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.”

Source : Mordecai Richler, Jonathan Webb, Aislin, Adam Gopnik (2007). “Mordecai Richler Was Here: Selected Writings”, Da Capo Press
“I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.”

Source : "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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