"There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor."

-- Robert Knepper

#Successful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.”
“When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.”

Source : Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January, 2003.
“Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.”
“Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?”

Source : Anne Stuart (2015). “Anne Stuart The House of Rohan Box Set: The Wicked House of Rohan\Ruthless\Reckless\Breathless\Shameless”, p.333, MIRA
“No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.”
“Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.”
“But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.213, Macmillan
“I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.”

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