"Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done."

-- Russell Baker

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“Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.”
“Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.”
“I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.”
“Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod”
“If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.”
“Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.”
“A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.”
“The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.”

Source : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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