"There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family."

-- John Kander

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“Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.”
“One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1969). “Lola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted”, p.240, Library of Alexandria
“Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.”
“Hair has always been important.”

Source : "Surgeon General: Don't Let Hair Get In The Way". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.
“In baseball, you've got to keep working.”
“I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.”
“Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.”
“I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.”

Source : Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 22, 2014.

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