"Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds."

-- Ved Mehta

#Art Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.”
“Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”
“What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.”
“I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.”
“I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.”

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“In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.”
“One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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