"There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture."

-- Sheridan Morley

#Art Quotes #Drama Quotes #Passion Quotes

“Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.”
“I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing”
“God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, itâ€™s a good thing â€“ the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.”
“There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.”

Source : Rachel Simmons (2011). “Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I dont believe in pressure. Pressure doesnt affect me at all.”
“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.15, Princeton University Press
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.”
“Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep...”

Source : Ernest Gellner (1994). “Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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