"I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job."

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Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

Jeff Britting

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“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.”
“All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine”
“A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.”
“In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.”

Source : Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.
“In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.”
“I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.”
“It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).”
“But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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