"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."

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Source : Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

Peter McWilliams

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“Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.”

Source : "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.
“I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.”
“I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would.”
“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.”
“I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!”
“I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.”
“Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.”
“I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.”

Source : Letter to Jane Pierce, March 3, 1863.

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