"What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'"

-- Denis Leary

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“The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.”
“If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.”
“If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.”
“You must try to forget all you have learned,â€ said the old man. â€œYou must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing
“The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.”
“The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.”
“Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.”
“Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.”

Source : Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Selected poems”, Harvard Univ Pr

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