"We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, ''Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?''"

-- Micheal Mac Liammoir

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?”
“[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was speaking not merely for himself but about the entire administration, beginning with Obama.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
“I have such incredible friends in L.A. that are pretty much my family now - I mean, outside of the family I have back in Canada - but they just supported me so hard and believed in me when I barely believed in myself anymore. I still can't thank them enough. They mean the world to me.”

Source : "Chasing Life Actress Italia Ricci: Uncertainty and Sticking It Out". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.”

Source : "Life Under the Necroscope: An Interview with Brian Lumley". Amazon Interview, www.brianlumley.com.
“The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.”
“The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.”
“For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”

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