"I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me."

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Tatiana Maslany

#Done Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.”
“I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.”
“Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.”
“Is he ever going to learn?”
“I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.”

Source : "Award-winning director Mike Nichols dies at 83" by Victoria Fleischer, www.pbs.org. November 20, 2014.
“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.”

Source : Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”
“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.
“It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.”

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