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“Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.”
Source : Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.215, A&C Black
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“The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.”
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“I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing.”
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”
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“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, ***** causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?”
Source : William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.36, Penguin
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“God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how.”
Source : Richard C. Halverson (1986). “No Greater Power: Perspective for Days of Pressure”, Multnomah Pub
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“I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young,”
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“A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.”
Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”