"My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period."

-- Dennis Christopher

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“The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.”
“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those ***** crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”
“How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?”
“The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.”

Source : Song: King Of The Jailhouse, Album: The Forgotten Arm, 2005
“My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a manâ€™s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say youâ€™re sorry and get on with it. Donâ€™t haul stuff around with you.”
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
“There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.”
“There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.”

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