"Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . ."

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Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#Friendship Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Advisors Quotes

“Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.”
“I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.”
“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.”
“Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine.”

Source : Song: Let's Love
“Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.”
“I'm not really in the excuse business.”
“I'm not very domestic. For years my children thought mold was a frosting.”

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