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“The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.”
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“I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.”
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“As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.”
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“I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.”
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“Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.”
Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.54, Picador
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“Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.”
Source : Henry Lawson, Walter Stone (1973). “Poems of Henry Lawson”, Sydney : Ure Smith
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“I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.”
