"We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons."

-- Daniel Berrigan

#Community Quotes #Three Quotes #Felons Quotes

“Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.
“Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.”
“In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'”
“So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.”
“I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.”
“Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?”
“You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.”
“You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.”

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