"You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad faith out there. That's why I finally trained myself not to look at this stuff anymore, because it doesn't do me any good to see myself either praised or attacked."

-- Paul Auster

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“I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.”
“England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country”
“I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.”
“Without discipline, there can be no freedom.”
“Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
“The hourglass runs low...”

Source : Christopher Pike (2013). “Chain Letter: Chain Letter; The Ancient Evil”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
“I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.”
“I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to do when I grew up. I knew the most fun I'd had was doing the play in her class, so when I told her that, she began to take me to local theater auditions and became my mentor and friend, and to this day continues to be.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com

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