"I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style."

-- Stephen Foster

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“Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind”
“A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.”

Source : Quoted in Time, 29 Sep 1986.
“We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.”
“The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.”
“I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.”
“Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.”
“Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.”

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