"The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it."

-- David McCullough

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“I started drama in high school.”
“I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.”
“In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.”
“All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.”

Source : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House
“Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)”
“It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury (2010). “Unlocked”, p.198, Harper Collins
“I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.”
“If you ain't laughing, you ain't living, baby.”

Source : FaceBook post by Carlos Mencia from Feb 08, 2012

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