"There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them."

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Source : Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.68, Macmillan

Alan Ayckbourn

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“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.”
“Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.”

Source : Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional
“Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.”
“Everyone in show business makes these sweeping, "I'll never work with so-and-so again," because that's the way you feel at the moment. It's a business where there really is no point in ever saying never. There are people I've sworn that I would never go near again, and then you see an interesting role that would put you opposite that person and you think, "Well, we'll work together, maybe they were having a bad year."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I wish it had been something as sexy as the old Joey Tribbiani, falling-down-an-elevator shaft. But no. It just faded out. I wasn't related to anybody or anybody's lost, amnesiac lovechild in One Life to Live. They just didn't have room for me, so it was a slow fade. I remember feeling the writing on the wall: "This is not going to end well for me."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.”
“The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.”
“When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.”

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