"The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience."

-- Stephen Sondheim

#Pieces Quotes #Littles Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.”
“Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.”
“When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.”
“Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.”

Source : "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, Chapter Five: A Balancing Act (p. 108), 1985.
“I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.”
“People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.”

Source : Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.”

Source : Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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