"To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning."

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Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.114, Open Road Media

Bel Kaufman

#Summer Quotes #Mother Quotes #Morning Quotes

“Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.”
“You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.”
“Itâ€™s one thing to see yourself going across the tickerâ€¦But to take someone else down, thatâ€™s another. I really canâ€™t even explain that pain.”
“Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.”
“If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.”
“Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious.”
“I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.”

Source : "Dylan McDermott Interview DARK BLUE Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2010.
“At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.”

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