"I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening."

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Charles Durning

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“The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.”
“The divorce between church and state should be absolute.”
“...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage”
“Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.”
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”

Source : "Dating In Midlife And What Secrets To Reveal" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.
“My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.”
“Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.”
“The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.”

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