"Once upon a time the English knew who they were."

-- Anna Pavlova

#Once Upon A Time Quotes

“They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.”
“Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!”
“When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.”
“We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.”
“I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.”
“Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.”
“One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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