"The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive."

-- Phyllis McGinley

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“I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.”
“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”

Source : Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.139, Zondervan
“I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.”

Source : "OPEN SEASON: An Interview with Martin Lawrence". Interview with Fred Topel, www.blackfilm.com. September 25, 2006.
“Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.”

Source : John Vanbrugh (1730). “Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]”, p.54
“If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.”
“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”
“Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.”
“In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?”

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