"I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

David Wenham

#Writing Quotes #Names Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.”
“I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.”
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”
“I mean, creatures who only exist in the dark don't know they're missing the sun, right? But once you've seen the sun. Once you've seen it light up the world ... once you've felt its heat all around you ... inside you ..." He clutched his own chest, and my heart cracked open. "Its hard to live in the dark after the sun dies.”
“Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.”
“Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.”
“Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.”

Source : "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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