"the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth."

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Source : Phyllis Rose (1993). “The Penguin book of women's lives”, Viking Canada

Phyllis Rose

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“I have a passion to do theater.”

Source : "Amy Irving Is Over Being an Ingenue". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2009.
“I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.”
“Shift from judgment to compassion to love.”
“If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.”
“I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.”
“While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.”
“If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.”
“But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.”

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