"The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?"

-- Stewart O'Nan

#Acceptance Quotes #Romance Quotes #Midwest Quotes

“When you're doing physical comedy, everybody's involved, not just the actors. Everybody's behind the scenes following them, and we've got Jillian the cinematographer running after them, then we've got three guys behind her who are cable-wranglers running with her so she doesn't trip on it. Every day was a mad-dash to the finish line. Every day was so stressful. Every day was so fun.”

Source : "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.
“As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon”
“I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.”

Source : "Sharon Horgan: 'I love making men cry'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.
“The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.”
“EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.”
“The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.”
“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010
“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.”

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