"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."

-- Timothy West

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.”
“Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.”

Source : Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A memorial of Daniel Webster: from the city of Boston”, p.55, Little, Brown
“In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.”
“without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.”
“Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.”
“I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.”
“Music is like a huge release of tension.”
“I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justinianoâ€™s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan

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