"There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength."

-- Peggy Ashcroft

#Strength Quotes #Play Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.”
“The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.”
“I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.”
“A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.”

Source : Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973
“If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target”
“The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1954). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.46, Univ of California Press
“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”
“Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.”

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