"In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it."

-- Marian Seldes

#Book Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.”
“I'm just playing ball. Trying not to think about it too much.”
“Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.”
“Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.”
“At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.”
“My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.”
“Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.”

Source : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
“Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.”

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