"I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another."

-- Lisel Mueller

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“The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.”

Source : Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.”
“The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world.”
“I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of reality, and furthermore that we all rely to a significant extent on the idea that models which provide elegant, simple and satisfying explanations are more likely to be true.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two ***** about who you are.”
“No one will believe in you until you believe in you.”
“The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.”
“The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.”

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”

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