"People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money."

-- John Gutfreund

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“Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.”
“If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?”
“I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.”
“The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.”

Source : "Dominique McElligott HELL ON WHEELS Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 05, 2011.
“My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering”
“What's shaking, chiefy baby?”
“Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.”

Source : "Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence" edited by Janel Mueller, University Of Chicago Press, (pp. 128-129), 2011.
“The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the short ten thousand years of what we may call civilization has achieved such wonders as we find about us, may be regarded as a creature without promise.”

Source : "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". Book by Robert Ardrey, 1961.

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