"Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it."

-- Sholom Aleichem

“Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!”
“Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.”
“There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.”
“Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.”
“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”
“The worthless usually live long.”
“You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.”
“All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.”

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