"I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part."

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Source : Timberlake Wertenbaker (2002). “Plays”

Timberlake Wertenbaker

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.”
“The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.”
“The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.”
“I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 29, 2012
“I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.”
“Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.”
“Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.”

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