"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."

-- Sanford Meisner

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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

Source : Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.
“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

Source : Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press
“I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.”

Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.
“What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?”
“The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.”
“But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight â€” matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in oneâ€™s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.”
“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”
“We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.”

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