"It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'"

-- Dan Quisenberry

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“I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.”

Source : "Marie Osmond: 'The Best Prevention is a Positive Attitude'" by Kate Hahn, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.
“I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.”
“That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'”
“I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.
“Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.”
“The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word.Â We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune.Â The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.”
“I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.”
“. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre . . ..”

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