"It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best."

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Source : Gary L. Blackwood (2003). “Shakespeare's Spy”, Dutton Childrens Books

Gary L. Blackwood

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“Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.”

Source : Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. May 8, 2008.
“The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.”
“I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'”
“Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.”
“Painting is an investigation of being.”

Source : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
“I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.”
“I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.”

Source : "The Oscars? Oh no, not again..." by Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2000.

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