"Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite."

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Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

Ellen Terry

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“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.”
“No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.”
“Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non Arabs'.”

Source : "Ethnic Cleansing Operation in Myanmar Nothing Short of Sadistic: UK Analyst". en.humanrights-iran.ir. September 17, 2017.
“I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.”
“Sheâ€™s never where she is,' I said. 'Sheâ€™s only inside her head.”
“My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.”
“Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.”
“Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.”

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