"Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance."

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Debra Dean

#New York Quotes #Artist Quotes #Careers Quotes

“The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 209, 1929.
“I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.”
“There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.”
“Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.”
“I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs”
“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.”
“One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.”
“Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.”

Source : Lee Goldberg (2011). “Mr. Monk on the Couch”, p.49, Penguin

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