"The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#House Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Should Quotes

“I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.
“The brave person thinks of himself last of all.”
“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
“On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.”
“It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.”

Source : 'Hero and Leander' (published 1598) First Sestiad, l. 167.
“I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.”
“I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.”

Source : ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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