"Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders."

-- Chris Elam

#Writing Quotes #Bystanders Quotes #Volunteer Quotes

“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.”
“I know it's wrong, but I'm weak.”
“I do not like being famous. I like being normal.”
“I want you forever, Kate. I want to grow old and have you here in my arms. I want children. I've wanted you for so long. I don't think that's about to change.”
“I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.”

Source : Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge
“We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.”
“The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”

Source : 1887 'Brise marine', in Poe sies, Du Parnasse Contemporain (1893).
“I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.”

Source : "'Klondike's' Abbie Cornish, Johnny Simmons on Finding Gold in History". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 22, 2014.

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