"I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss."

-- Francine Prose

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“Music is everywhere. Itâ€™s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.”
“I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.
“As we see this work move forward and move on, I would only declare to you as I stand before you today that in those 90 and more years that I've had, as I've witnessed and felt and seen and been part of the spiritual experiences that have been mine, that this is the work of the Lord. It's just as has been revealed. I've sensed it and I feel it, and I so declare to you.”
“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
“As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.”
“Easter is never deserved.”

Source : Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.285, Penguin
“No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you.”

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