"When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

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“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.”
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.”

Source : "The Perils of Obedience," Harper's Magazine, 1974.
“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”
“But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.”
“My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mike Birbiglia from Jul 26, 2015
“Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne, and every phantasm of the soul is the energie of the soul.”

Source : Henry More (1642). “GVuhwdia platonica: or, A platonicall song of the soul, consisting of foure severall poems; viz. GVuhozwia, Vuhacanasia, Antivuhopannuhia, Antimonovuhia. Hereto is added a paraphrasticall interpretation of the answer of Apollo consulted by Amelius, about Pltinus soul departed this life. By”, p.210
“Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug”

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