"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Destiny Quotes #Men Quotes #Funny Sarcastic Quotes

“I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.”

Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Terrence McNally". Interview with Harry Haun, www.playbill.com. March 26, 2011.
“We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.”

Source : "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.
“Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.”
“Dream big, because dreams do happen.”
“There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.
“I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.”
“The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.”
“Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2002). “Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories”, p.44, Macmillan

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