"I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age."

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Source : E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 304 (26 November 1661)

John Evelyn

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“To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice”
“Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.”
“I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

Source : Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.35, Penguin
“The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.”
“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”
“A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.”
“I come from a traditional theater background.”

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