"a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ..."

-- Stevie Smith

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“You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.”
“They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.”
“Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.”
“I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.”
“Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.”
“We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?”
“I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, Depth of sea, Stability of earth, Firmness of rock.”

Source : "Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century". Book by Bernard McGinn, Jean Leclercq, John Meyendorff, 1986.
“The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.”

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