"What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do."

-- Patti LuPone

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“Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.”
“Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!”
“You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.”
“I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.”
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartâ€”the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
“When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!”

Source : Upton Sinclair (1928). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.246, University of Illinois Press
“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”
“There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it.' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.”

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